The collection · DiffusionLab

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

Typology grid of masked figures of a part held up in a beam of light and a handwheel turned by two figures, the week the line ran double, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 10014.

The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.

Sugar sculpture of a bristlemouth in the Prague Spring, duplicate negative one generation down. Work 9969.

The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites. Work 9967.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros. Work 9961.

A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.

A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater. Work 9921.

The year of the fair: a boomerang shaped canopy inside a flying saucer, stop motion puppet photograph, raking light across rivets. Work 9919.

Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.

16mm puppet play telecined to tape of a painted forest border hung on a batten over boards painted to look like grass, 16mm negative printed by contact, studio camera on a pedestal. Work 9893.

A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.

A movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9891.

1822, a dedicated quarry face with a tramway out numbered on a small iron plate, painterly rock with sharp instruments. Work 9878.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 9874.

A movie poster for a heist that goes wrong, 1970s, grain, split composition. Work 9864.

A superstitious woman handing back a tower unbroken, 1984, spread printed on a heavy gloss sheet. Work 9863.

A fishwife's head in sour pink and an apprentice's head in flat sand, banner portrait in two loud inks, tape marks down two sides. Work 9856.

A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.

Poster paint illustration in flat colour of a group filling a convertible in the studio, Tri-X on a seamless backdrop, acrylic over an airbrushed ground. Work 9795.

A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line. Work 9792.

A figure standing with both arms raised beyond a bend of pale river, the shadow arrived first. Work 9780.

Rubber stamp print artwork of a sound man with headphones on one ear, reversal film with blocked highlights, open reel video tape frame. Work 9779.

A bereft rust-scabbed winding engine, the Joseon dynasty, acrylic concept illustration, Kodak Ektapan 100. Work 9759.

A blown-out taxi driver's face in flat amber inside a magazine cover crop, an hour before dawn, straight-on architectural record. Work 9750.

A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view. Work 9738.

Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film. Work 9723.

A Benin bronze plaque in drizzle on a seafront promenade, caving expedition photograph, Fujicolor Super HG 400. Work 9718.

A revolving stage with a long ramp in a hall of open steelwork, the 1925 exposition year. Work 9709.

A rain-rounded figure with one arm fallen beside it between two colossal gate figures, the first crossing of the gorge, the far tower answered with no fire, rank on rank of figures fading to grey. Work 9704.