The collection · DiffusionLab

A breathing filter on a cheek, underwater colour transparency, the log was in pencil because of the wet, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 8981.

Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 8952.

Flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks of a bus conductor's face in flat brown and a barber's face in two clashing inks, a sitting nobody was paid for, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 8910.

A moss-grown steam-lifting row of carved heads along a causeway, the last of the wet months, atmospheric layering over stone, exposed for the haze and not the stone. Work 8776.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.

A dead-level cable dropped down a sheer face, before the second one was found, concept art in flat value blocks, five colour offset on matte stock. Work 8583.

Illustrated portrait with no line at all of a squeegeed model's face reduced to three flats inside a stencilled oval in the last print of the series. Work 8557.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

A seed-drifted carved stone head half sunk in leaf litter beside a lichen map spreading over pale bark, a season when the leaves did not fall, antiquarian plate of a wooded ruin. Work 8390.

Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.

A row of six identical heads inside a lift of mirrored panels, high contrast portrait in two tones, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 8273.

A miner's head in flat black and white against a tiled underground wall, the season of the loud palette, screenprint head over a halftone photo, cheap process print on a folded sheet. Work 8162.

The front row went home half deaf: twelve inch sleeve back panel of a sour-orange choirboy's head in flat lemon, an edition of twenty-five. Work 8143.

1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space. Work 8119.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 8110.

Double-printed page slightly out of register of a face pressed to the copier glass and a contact sheet copied at wrong contrast, the winter of cheap copies, thin newsprint copied and folded. Work 8039.

Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 7995.

A rod worked puppet miller dusted with talcum inside a punt of cut cardboard, the last season of a puppet series, footlight shadow thrown up a face. Work 7867.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7815.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7803.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7717.

The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 7698.

Serial head print in eight variants of a cropped tight self portrait in flat pink, the season of the loud palette, moire over a rescreened source. Work 7673.

Repetition study in monochrome of a goggles pushed up on a forehead beside a brake press folding a panel, the last full production year, duplicator sheet with a double image. Work 7624.

A proof pulled before lunch: an impassive clown's head in three clashing inks, portrait with the skin left bare paper, stone lithography with a chalk tint. Work 7599.

1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7557.

Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.

The corridor ended where it began: a carved face four metres across in the second dry season, film still from a temple sequence, print with highlights held down. Work 7450.