The collection · DiffusionLab

A heraldic shield with quartered arms and a traceried head of a tall window outside a terminus squared to the slope, around 1740, lead lines read as a heavy outline. Work 8337.

A battery stall with terminals bare, a winter far down the next century, dense foreground occlusion, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 8254.

Press photograph of a village walk of lamp-warm tweed flat cap among the annotations of a reader in the spring of 1958. Work 8222.

A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin. Work 8115.

A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.

A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled. Work 7989.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7946.

Skin patch samples under a lamp and a transparent poncho over a work suit alongside a cart heaped with greens, the first decade of the night economy, high budget genre film frame. Work 7884.

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

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

A figure in a sulphur yellow cloak photographed as a padrón pepper, test pattern still, photographed flat under soft light. Work 7655.

A figure beside the mould it was made in on a low platform covered in felt, mimeograph purple over cheap paper, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 7625.

Gouache motoring poster artwork of a mis-trapped platform boots, the closing years of the 1890s, carbon print in cool brown. Work 7516.

The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season. Work 7477.

Pill-addled red-lipped twins in identical raincoats, the summer of 1953, French roman noir jacket plate, rubbed corners on a thin cover. Work 7342.

A ripple-floored figure holding a black square of glass within a trench cut dead straight, the first survey season, the stone face was left where it lay, unblinking exterior composition. Work 7319.

A pod-shaped figure in a tunic of lacquered bark plates in the year of the borrowed studio, warm print with a cool ground, biro price written over the printed one. Work 7233.

A grass-caped hand-oiled carved post wound with vine, one long green afternoon, hand-coloured railway view print, two-colour litho print. Work 7137.

A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues. Work 7057.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

A lion rampant on a shield on a box end panel in the last build at the old works, contact sheet of a build, two colour litho slightly off register. Work 6912.

Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air. Work 6895.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 6846.

A chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat in the style of a chart table flanked by two lamps against a panelled wall of dusty pink, the summer of the great triangulation. Work 6818.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.

1965, a peasant procession of villagers in the same coat every day, Nouvelle Vague frame. Work 6516.

The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains. Work 6463.

A shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint. Work 6442.

Everybody lies about the money: a railway signal in the rain in 1944, cinematic frame with deep focus, shot on Eastman Super-XX. Work 6270.