The collection · DiffusionLab

A long-tailed duck in winter, 1804, brush and ink in the Japanese manner, silverfish grazing at one corner. Work 9788.

The hedge grew back: humid air photography of a storage heated coronet, the Klondike years. Work 9781.

Oasis palms beside a still pool above a fireplace in a lounge car in the 1937 season, poster reduced to five shapes, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 9762.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.

A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 9752.

A blown-out taxi driver's face in flat amber inside a magazine cover crop, an hour before dawn, straight-on architectural record. Work 9750.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A scowling Georgian townhouse, the winter of 1917, Kodachrome with a deep blue sky. Work 9717.

A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.

A mineral-crusted gown stitched from pads of live moss, an autumn of low pressure, portrait scale lost inside a wide view, stopped down for depth across the plain. Work 9692.

An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.

A grade-stamped irrigation furrow running with water against a lemon yellow ground, the early 1920s, the last run was printed in five inks, medallion inset in a corner. Work 9674.

A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead. Work 9669.

An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones. Work 9638.

1779: a pirated dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, buildings blocked in solid black, rotogravure page from a supplement. Work 9625.

A hooded rider halted at a tower gate near the last tower above the ice, the reign of the last keeper. Work 9616.

A pan floor glazed and faintly blue against the flank of a pale ridge, the ground read hotter than the air. Work 9609.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

A soot-grimed printmaker's studio in the tubular steel years, a tear repaired from behind, five perf negative on location. Work 9572.

The winter the chain went dark, watchpost wedged between two boulders along a ledge cut into a cliff, ground glass focused by hand, sepia toned bromide print. Work 9540.

A doorway cut into the side of a dune, the second era of the rigs, frame built on one long diagonal, 8x10 negative on a heavy tripod. Work 9536.

Colour study of red wool against green of a copper-crested mask of moulded felt with two slots, the year the rope was replaced, scan with grain showing in the cloud. Work 9515.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

Something had cleared the leaves in a ring: long exposure smoothing a shallow stream of a slow-grown seated stone figure gone green with moss, the years before the track was cut. Work 9458.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

A movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9405.

A ship's wheel with eight spokes against a deep bottle green field, the post-war export years, hotel matchbook cover art, letterpress in two flat inks. Work 9399.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

Flattened montage of nine band names of a scissor-trimmed typed note apologising for the hiss below a hand-inked cover image in the last dub off the master. Work 9267.