The collection · DiffusionLab

A river with its tributaries named and a price crossed out and made free, woodland shown by small tree symbols, flyer folded in four in a pocket. Work 8716.

A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.

Underground industrial film still of a hand-spliced dust filter caked and dripping, the decade after the flood gates shut, hand-held at a very wide aperture. Work 8684.

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

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

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.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

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.

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.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

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.

A longhorn steer at a water trough over a range of violet mountains in 1926, proof plate with colour progressions, clay coated label stock with a sheen. Work 8439.

No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

A classroom blues guitarist on a porch across a moat gone still, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, the programme was repeated, cold blue shadow against warm stone. Work 8391.

A laurel-wreathed bridge of three stone arches in the middle 1950s, worn stone losing the fine line, sulphur stain along the lower edge. Work 8305.

An ice auger turning in thick floe with two hundred miles to go, the mid 1920s, depot location sketch map, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 8263.

Telephoto compression along a mill of an ore bridge over a stockyard, whole plate view camera negative, dry plate exposed by furnace light. Work 8215.

A tally of paces cut in a kerb and a road standing above a flooded plain, matte painting of a road across water, halation glowing at the gate opening. Work 8209.

A horse tethered at a shrine above a shoreline of grey rocks in the Bunsei years, wiped tone across a distant hill. Work 8148.

An ice-glazed slash burning on a cut-over hill beside a boy bowling a hoop down a lane, the spring freshet, stereoview of a big stump. Work 8010.

An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.

A ridge of red scoria against grey sky made of moss bed deep enough to sink into beside a pool of grey mud, an autumn of low pressure, frame with rain spots on the filter. Work 7974.

A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper. Work 7971.

A sourceless-lit pump rod running down into water inside a winding house of stone, the first winter below, person reduced to a mark on a shore. Work 7962.

A group in hats gathered at a raised bonnet across the grass towards the lake, helicopter photograph of the lawn, gouache over a ruled pencil base. Work 7949.

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

A river-stained oil can and a rag on a hatch amid drifting water hyacinth, the year the river ran high, dense green colour study. Work 7871.