The collection · DiffusionLab

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print. Work 8685.

The lift served one button only: a construction crane on an unfinished crown in the corporate century, silhouetted figure at a great window, digital matte with painted atmosphere. Work 8647.

Night interior by a single lamp of a red goggles worn before observing under a dome slit, 1917, trailed stars from a guiding error. Work 8633.

The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.

A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter. Work 8500.

Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book. Work 8462.

A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition. Work 8450.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 8304.

A firewood stack under a root overhang beside a stream running clear on stone, sixteen pages on eight sheets, silver gelatin on a matte surface, telephoto at four hundred millimetres. Work 8283.

The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.

A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor. Work 8187.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

Dotted illustration with no grey in it of a man walking away down a hallway in the hundredth issue, two flats meeting with a white gap. Work 8147.

A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 8121.

The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A trench with walls polished smooth, after the fourth attempt failed, three quarter view on an upright mass, edge softness left in the corners. Work 7904.

The second felling: a mist-filled hollow way worn below the root line, six-step tonal range in warm greys, telephoto at four hundred millimetres. Work 7866.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 7692.

Stillness with one moving cart of a flood-marked shaft of light falling through a gate between two colossal gate figures in an age whose end is not recorded. Work 7690.

A stiffened hem soaked dark to the shin inside a room hung entirely in grey, one dry spring among many, photograph of stillness held for a minute. Work 7689.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

Silhouetted figure at a great window of a factory floor with every machine silent, daylight stock gone amber, varnish over a printed plate. Work 7611.

A shadow play against a curtain of falling water, the 8-bit years, structural engineer's defect photograph, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 7592.

A dust-free blower duct under a dome floor under a pointer arrow of light, 1923, filmstrip frame for a lecture. Work 7488.