The collection · DiffusionLab

A white-striped trunk painted with a white ring, a morning of low cloud, photograph of stillness held for a minute, frame with the film edge left visible. Work 9350.

A pennanted regatta of white sails on a bay in the season of the gold swimsuit, duplicate transparency losing shadow, C-type print on glossy paper. Work 9209.

The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22. Work 9181.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

A brine-filled sun reflected twice off a brine film beside a shelter of blocks built shoulder high, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, measured plate of a cut salt block. Work 9023.

A span carried on two heavy piers at the point where the ramp meets the floor in the year the seasons ran backwards, high saturation reversal stock. Work 8963.

Rendered as a plate from a site report of a capital of stone leaves half submerged, selenium toning for cold deep blacks, single sheet exposed at slack water. Work 8955.

Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24. Work 8942.

The week the moat filled: chalk-numbered lily pads across a stone tank, colour timed toward magenta haze, colour crushed to stone and haze. Work 8911.

The ship moved half a mile with the floe: ballistic photograph of a light hearted Chinese embroidered silk screen, the autumn of 1975. Work 8873.

A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.

An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular. Work 8711.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 8707.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 8678.

Shafts of sun down a gate passage across a plain standing under water, the third series of the standard body, industrial catalogue photography, available light laboratory frame. Work 8661.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

A sun disc doubled in the river and a fisherman standing in a narrow canoe, scale study of a boat and a bank, wet gate printed dupe. Work 8641.

The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 8576.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.

Claude glass view of a billabong camp, Konica Centuria 100, collodion wet plate. Work 8501.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

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 mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

A layered folding stool set in a strip of shade underneath a sky with one thin plume, a hundred years of the same weather, the marker had been moved again, static locked frame on an empty plain. Work 8426.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.

The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.