The collection · DiffusionLab

Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.

A coastline with soundings in fathoms, the last hand coloured issue, wave lines close along the shore, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8402.

A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur. Work 8354.

Sledge design line figure of a lead of black water through the floe off a barren coast, hand tinted with thin washes, album page with corner mounts. Work 8288.

A column drum half buried in sand, 1864, cutaway of a helmet and breastplate, sepia wash on laid paper. Work 7713.

A horizon erased by identical whites in the glare at the middle of the day in the years a crossing took four days, large format negative stopped right down. Work 7636.

Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.

Symmetrical composition between two figures of a soot-darkened stone jetty running out into shallow water, the first crossing of the gorge, wet collodion on a large glass plate. Work 7533.

An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette. Work 7416.

A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.

A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.

A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.

A lemon house with vent louvres and a bear flag with a red stripe under a striped beach umbrella, 1943, stylised sunburst behind a peak. Work 7209.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low. Work 7006.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry. Work 6811.

A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil. Work 6794.

A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement. Work 6620.

New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s. Work 6578.

A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners. Work 6570.

A bathing hut on the Lido di Venezia on wet sand at low tide in the school holidays, 8mm film grain. Work 6509.

The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide. Work 6495.

A cheerful stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a concrete balcony above the sand, the school holidays, public information film frame. Work 6481.

An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element. Work 6467.

A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky. Work 6465.

A first class fully booked hollowed pineapple with two straws, the Concorde years, wall calendar photograph of a beach, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon. Work 6391.

1980, an overcast seafront weather forecast board halfway into the sea, colour snapshot. Work 6356.

A crazy golf hole and a view of Benidorm beach from a balcony behind a striped windbreak, the school holidays, Martin Parr style photograph. Work 6310.

A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph. Work 6279.