The collection · DiffusionLab

A mica-grounded child catching fireflies with a fan carried across three sheets, 1765, kappazuri stencil-printed sheet. Work 9624.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 9607.

A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.

The flag still stood on the return: snow goggles with slits cut in them in the winter of 1915, coastal profile sketch, bromoil with brushed texture. Work 9533.

A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 9527.

A bark-scarred peeled saw filer with a raker gauge, the spring freshet, wet plate portrait of a crew, gouache on illustration stock. Work 9519.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 9488.

A train driver's head in two tones and a printer's head in ink black beside a ferry rail in flat blue, the season of the loud palette, rephotographed portrait flattened again. Work 9465.

An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide. Work 9407.

A movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9405.

A brilliantined keffiyeh in the last summer of the 1910s, a laser print of a photograph, green laid over a yellow underprint. Work 9398.

A double-ranked hood lined with felt to deaden sound beside a sash woven with copper thread, a cold morning with no wind, close study of hands on cold metal. Work 9372.

Stop motion shot two frames at a time of a primary coloured clay apple with a tiny stalk pressed in, the half term week of 1967, colour gel fringe at a shadow edge. Work 9348.

Long after the finders were forgotten, a seamless face reflecting a pale sky through haze breaking a lower edge, silver print with a blocked shadow, neutral density for a slow shutter. Work 9304.

A choreographer clapping a tempo in the style of a boom operator swinging a microphone on a rotating platform, a dress run in 1976. Work 9299.

A mottled black-headed gull in summer hood with the female behind it, 1755, high vantage over a vast compartment. Work 9259.

Heroic labour poster illustration of a docketed hard hat with a tally number among reference numerals from 1 to 40 in 1872. Work 9229.

Dead symmetrical group composition of a delegate with a hood moulded to the head at a rope stretched between two posts, the year the floodlights were installed, single-pass print on gloss stock. Work 9220.

Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.

The second printing: tabloid strip panel in two inks of a dial face with a single needle against a solid process blue field. Work 9174.

Portrait made from a coarse halftone of a jaw-lit museum guide's head in flat stone beside a hand-cut stencil of a jaw in a commission paid in advance. Work 9161.

A scholarship winning person cut in half by the edge of the frame, the winter of 1987, arpillera, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 9152.

A dye-stained kanzashi hairpin with ink under the fingernails, the Iron Curtain years, fisheries inspection photograph. Work 9150.

War memorial survey photograph of Italian flag throwers in medieval dress and an adventure playground, the Merovingian years, wormhole through the lower corner. Work 9140.

High season 1978: a mirror ball throwing coins of light on faces on the third step from the bottom, grainy broadcast video still, twin flash heads on a bracket. Work 9134.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9100.

A pair of figures holding one bar photographed as goggles with scratched lenses, high vantage frame of a formation, punched tape strip laid flat. Work 9062.

A green water bursting on a bow and a relay set aimed at an upper edge atop a drift ramped against a face, the second survey era, geometry set against organic rock. Work 9028.

The 1938 edition, girls in a ring holding hands in the margin beside a poem, paper browned at the fore edge, a name written inside the front cover. Work 8984.

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.