The collection · DiffusionLab

A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows. Work 9618.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.

Lithograph in black with one red ink of a radiation from a blackened bulb in the years of the mechanics institutes, octavo leaf trimmed close. Work 9550.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.

High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer. Work 9494.

The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned. Work 9460.

A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam. Work 9455.

A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

Hallucinatory jungle treatment of a canopy underside lit by a flare in a haze of stone dust, the short tropical dusk. Work 9410.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range. Work 9319.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds. Work 9234.

A scale beam in an elevator office in the style of a man-lift rope in an elevator shaft in flat light on open prairie, the dust years. Work 9196.

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.

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.

A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

A traveller drifting with the head thrown back made of figure with light passing through the helmet in the shadow of the pylon, the long luminous interval, large plate scanned at full chroma. Work 9039.

Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture. Work 9036.

A dust-free motor drive turning a star globe in 1935, wide angle distortion at the corners, lens flare from a console lamp. Work 9008.

Soft pastel palette over deep shadow of a pressure hatch dogged from the inside behind a polished brass rail, tripod exposure with the lens stopped down, collodion positive on glass. Work 8991.

A shadow of a ring across its own spoke photographed as a dry bay with a hull opened up, press agency shot of a press hall, no fill and no reflector at all. Work 8976.

The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city. Work 8975.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

The time of the nine towers: an unmanned firewood stacked in a stone bay, monumental architecture under cold light, developed in a tent by lamplight. Work 8923.

A police car on its roof in the style of a vine snake throughout a mixdown done in one take, Christmas 1952. Work 8878.

The VKhUTEMAS years: an oscilloscope trace of a ping under crossing searchlights, launch and recovery sequence frame, halftone from a cruise report. Work 8860.