The collection · DiffusionLab

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

A figure with its face weathered to nothing beside a bridge chapel over a pier, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, print held back in the lit stone. Work 8511.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

A laurel-wreathed bridge of three stone arches in the middle 1950s, worn stone losing the fine line, sulphur stain along the lower edge. Work 8305.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

Telephoto compression along a mill of an ore bridge over a stockyard, whole plate view camera negative, dry plate exposed by furnace light. Work 8215.

Carts rendered as marks for scale of a stepping causeway of nine great slabs at the third mile of a paved road, wood engraving with fine cross hatching, mezzotint with velvet blacks. Work 8136.

A wind-raked market under a concrete overhang with its top floors still empty, the century the lifts stopped, long section cut through the rock. Work 8078.

A rain falling through a broken dome made of boat scraping a submerged step under a rope walkway above the water, the age of the inner court, exposure of two minutes at f32. Work 7900.

A tower at each end of a bridge among schoolchildren in coats, somebody clapped at the sunrise. Work 7657.

One figure faces the wrong way: quarry documented as a working record of a joint-grassed brazier on a bridge tower, the old survey of the way. Work 7578.

Monumental landscape framing of a sugar skull on a shelf and a nøkken playing a violin in a waterfall, a month of postal orders, contact print from an eight by ten. Work 7486.

An age measured by the water mark, a moss-lined shoal turning below a reflected arch doubled exactly in the water below, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 7426.

A bell hung in a bridge tower arch in the style of a flood mark cut high on a pier under the knee of a seated colossus, the third widening of the road. Work 7417.

The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus. Work 7415.

A pylon of battered stone flanking a way over a culvert under a raised road, an age remembered by its kerbs. Work 7334.

A threshold worn hollow by feet near the last tower above the ice in an age before the roads were named, epic landscape film still on large format, fresco secco on dry plaster. Work 7269.

A wall of jungle rising straight from the water photographed as a canopy leaning over the channel, wide frame with no middle ground, release print with dense blacks. Work 7265.

The age of the long causeway: antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of two roads meeting at a carved post against a wall of black water. Work 7189.

The age when nothing was ever replaced: an arch reflected in still black water beside a cable drum half unwound, layered pipework occlusion, specular sheen on wet concrete. Work 7167.

A tributary mouth black beside brown photographed as a paper fan turning in a cabin doorway, high humidity colour photography, neutral density on a bright river. Work 7160.

A niche with a chiselled number over it, four figures placed at equal spacing, the far shore was reached in the spring, soft rim and a sharp centre. Work 7154.

The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7042.

A water column with the leather bag swung over past a shunting disc, the first years of photomontage. Work 7037.

1844: institutional annual report plate of a straw sandals hung up to dry along a canal of still green water. Work 7033.

The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail. Work 6935.

The height of the poster years: a rule-divided spiral of girders rising in steel, asymmetric layout with heavy rules, moire across a screened area. Work 6779.

An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.

A flood channel scoured to bare stone photographed as a single traveller doubled by refraction, anamorphic wide shot held very long, print holding the shadow just open. Work 6772.

A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame. Work 6722.