The collection · DiffusionLab

A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.

Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931. Work 8482.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.

An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.

Relief expedition press photograph of a tin-lidded glacier snout calving into the sea, 1901, emulsion cracked by the cold. Work 8319.

A tovshuur beneath a mountain wall far behind, the closing years of the 1930s. Work 8311.

A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure. Work 8268.

The season before the survey began, a mountain hut roped to a ridge beside a white esplanade rail, halftone only in the sky, blue faded toward grey. Work 8149.

The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.

Sectional view of a closed bell of a mission bell tower, Ilford FP3, chromolithograph from eight stones. Work 7982.

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 7894.

Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

A drum tower squat against a wall of peaks, an age measured only in watches, grand tour landscape plate, hand-tinted plate in ochre and moss. Work 7644.

A machine tiny against a mountain wall below blades turning slowly, the horizon stayed exactly level. Work 7628.

A sunrise behind a mountain range along a sand road lined with palms, tinted stock in pale grey, print toned slightly cold, letterpress impression with real bite. Work 7542.

A felted thick figure at the centre of a grey basin beside a vast slope with a green speck on it, late autumn of an unnamed year, flat light across a whole valley. Work 7437.

A figure whose cape lifts in the vent draught above a valley split by a flow, a morning before the cloud lifted, aerial view flattened into pattern, single frame with no second take. Work 7435.

An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

Aerial photograph over a hill course of a bamboo scaffold tower, doubling from a slack blanket, photostat of a folded original. Work 7303.

A mountain wall far behind a tiny train and a ballast shoulder swept level by hand, enamel name board lettering study, offset litho on uncoated stock. Work 7278.

Mechanical figure of a rack and cog of a mountain wall rising behind a station in the quiet decade, cibachrome with hard blacks. Work 7243.

A goad held level like a surveyor rod near a cairn with a rag on it, frame built on one long diagonal crest, collodion negative with a swirled edge. Work 7221.

A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag. Work 7173.

Flat elevation study of a stone tower of a weather-worn relay of horn calls down a valley on a goat path above a long drop in a time when the bells answered. Work 7127.

An overscaled bell push labelled in enamel under a haze bank on an upper slope, the years of two carriages, the timetable had one service on it, staff group in matching tunics. Work 7126.

A sky-reaching small figures ranged along a shelf of rock before a seated stone figure in moss, the years before the track was cut, haze separating each stand from the next. Work 7017.

An overbearing concrete stair cut a hundred metres up a cliff standing where the rock was removed, after the outposts were joined, orthographic plate with no perspective. Work 6973.

The season the funicular opened, a dumb waiter hatch in a panelled wall toward a mountain wall in a window, large format colour with a deep haze, violet ink number in a margin. Work 6959.