The collection · DiffusionLab

Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print. Work 8359.

An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

Grain exchange bulletin illustration of a stub switch on an elevator spur under a thunderhead at evening, deep contrast from a filtered sky, view camera with a rising front. Work 8054.

The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8019.

A ribbon tied parachute caught on a church steeple, the Hungry Thirties, figure lit from one low lamp, plate fogged by returning daylight. Work 7987.

Animation cycle repeated four times of a Rexine paper effigy burned for ancestors, Easter 1979, polarised sky above pale ground. Work 7922.

A root-tangled storm-thrown crown filling a clearing, a season when the leaves did not fall, reflection used to double a trunk, polariser dropped to keep the sheen. Work 7864.

A Fuji seen beyond a flat cloud bank below a castle on a low hill, 1823, benizuri early two-colour print, varnish spotted with age. Work 7763.

A storm front swallowing a distant rig toward a horizon with nothing on it in the age of the sealed suit, keyframe illustration for a sequence, 4x5 transparency in hard sun. Work 7750.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky. Work 7610.

Rubbed browned spot heights on a summit, 1745, two plate printing in black and blue, sheet marked in pencil and rubbed out. Work 7577.

Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges at the head of a worn approach, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 7481.

An eclipse seen through cloud, long exposure, diffuse ring. Work 7191.

A frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light. Work 7118.

Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod. Work 6948.

A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small. Work 6781.

A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 6773.

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

One week of identical sunrises: a flower-hung pair flying abreast at low level, rotor blur composition, pulled stock for a soft horizon. Work 6765.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation. Work 6671.

A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.

The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed. Work 6522.