The collection · DiffusionLab

Still from a resort advertising film of a man in aviators asleep with a book on his face and a man in a yellow shirt hailing a water taxi, the summer nobody went home. Work 9552.

An over-scaled late sun striking one column only in the years the boats came inside, grain left visible on the water plane, lithograph with a cold tint plate. Work 9518.

Diagram of a crossover in outline of coloured floods washing the maple in a Saturday afternoon in 1980, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 9457.

A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.

An observing chair cranked to its top notch among globes on identical stands, the spring the clock was regulated, hand tinted mechanical illustration, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 9390.

A still water reaching away into the dark, lithographic plate from an expedition, the water was the same level all year, gouache on a toned ground. Work 9382.

A white-striped trunk painted with a white ring, a morning of low cloud, photograph of stillness held for a minute, frame with the film edge left visible. Work 9350.

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

The summer of 1923, a white-flannelled wishing tree measured in fathoms and written down, Marey chronophotograph. Work 9247.

A rain-darkened smoke sitting flat above the moat between the forest and the stone, the years of the survey, the haze had a colour of its own, two colour lighting on stone. Work 9239.

The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22. Work 9181.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

A brine-filled sun reflected twice off a brine film beside a shelter of blocks built shoulder high, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, measured plate of a cut salt block. Work 9023.

A span carried on two heavy piers at the point where the ramp meets the floor in the year the seasons ran backwards, high saturation reversal stock. Work 8963.

Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24. Work 8942.

A bruised moll driving barefoot on a coast road against plaster layered with tags, two floods after the last survey, mass market paperback front cover art. Work 8937.

Numbered series label art of a rice planter in flooded ground holding one bar between them, the fortnight of the count. Work 8807.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 8678.

An algae bloom seen from space with the gate chained shut, the summer of 1914, video still from a worn tape, photostat. Work 8658.

A sun disc doubled in the river and a fisherman standing in a narrow canoe, scale study of a boat and a bank, wet gate printed dupe. Work 8641.

The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 8576.

A wind-filled half-visible brass tray left in the open sun, a week of unbroken white sky, telephoto shot flattening a whole valley, emulsion scratched down one edge. Work 8553.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.

Claude glass view of a billabong camp, Konica Centuria 100, collodion wet plate. Work 8501.

A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.