The collection · DiffusionLab

Long lens study through fog of a figure holding a struck bar still ringing, wide crop with a high flat horizon, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 8672.

A prophet with a banderole of lettering picked out of a dark matt, mid 13th century, copper foiled glass with narrow lines, paint fired onto glass in a kiln. Work 8648.

The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon. Work 8637.

A lichen-ringed cool-shaded frieze of figures under green haze, the month of the flower offerings, 70mm temple sequence still, warm filter on grey stone. Work 8625.

Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel. Work 8610.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour. Work 8572.

Russian palekh miniature between rows of moulded white seats in the Inca years, revenue stamp vignette, print trimmed with a rough blade. Work 8569.

1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

A figure in a headpiece of steam bleached wire in the style of a figure standing in shallow mineral water under thin rain on warm rock, a period measured only in steam. Work 8457.

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A leaded straight faced tipi, the first year of the motorway, ethnographic survey photograph, tray developed by hand. Work 8320.

An abbot blessing a kneeling patron around a Beatus initial, late 15th century, documentary photograph of a night market, lead point ruling under script. Work 8314.

An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light. Work 8287.

A figure in a hood of woven horsehair and two figures in matching sculptural gowns, colour study of texture and volume, green held true through the whole frame. Work 8270.

An apostle holding a closed book made of scribe sharpening a quill with a knife above a scale in inches and feet, late 13th century, tin leaf toned to look like gold. Work 8260.

A man in a satin jumpsuit with a wide belt beside a wind machine on set, acrylic and airbrush over a photograph, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8255.

The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.

A keyed hermit crab wearing a gramophone horn beside the scrutineering bay, the Mali empire years, machine minder at work photograph. Work 8165.

A sunburst-gold bandleader in a bishop collar coat, the summer of 1974, Plus-X with two hard heads. Work 8164.

A fume-hazed man in slippers on a balcony at breakfast in the opening years of the 1970s, grainless large format colour, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8017.

An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer. Work 7966.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7946.

Skin patch samples under a lamp and a transparent poncho over a work suit alongside a cart heaped with greens, the first decade of the night economy, high budget genre film frame. Work 7884.

Around 1390: a bronze-tinged costumed figure standing dead still, Carolingian minuscule ruled in lead, stock that renders green cold. Work 7873.

A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 7809.

A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge. Work 7782.

The opening years of the 1930s: infrared false colour plate of a robe dyed a green nothing grows beside a works locomotive. Work 7683.