The collection · DiffusionLab

A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned. Work 9938.

Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4. Work 9930.

A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.

A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater. Work 9921.

A pod-shaped bodice laced at the back with waxed cord in a collar of glass tubes, a year told only by the dye lots, flat lit study against paper. Work 9917.

The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots. Work 9901.

Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.

A figure with three collars stacked upward, portrait with a tape measure left in, it stood up on its own afterwards, daylight balanced stock under soft boxes. Work 9859.

Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone. Work 9855.

A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.

The line never stopped for anyone: a twin figures either side of a press in the third week of a shutdown, flat graphic figure in black, print spotted out with process white. Work 9821.

Face-on figure standing on the bottom of a chamber gauge read by an attendant at the knee of a carved figure, gum print over a platinum base, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 9819.

Licensing inspection photograph of a town square, Ektachrome E100G, Fujicolor Superia 200. Work 9818.

A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.

An age measured in miles of paving: lithograph in three stone greys of a lap of a seated figure used as a shelter at a relay marker on a straight mile. Work 9796.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 9775.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 9774.

Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor. Work 9746.

A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view. Work 9738.

A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.

A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9699.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9697.

Muted pastels in a cold interior of a German nutcracker soldier in the Swiss Style years, K-14 processed Kodachrome. Work 9683.

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.

Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.

Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black. Work 9649.

Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing. Work 9641.

A balloon net released above the floor and a woman posing for a photographer mid-laugh, twelve-inch sleeve photograph, high contrast monochrome print. Work 9635.