The collection · DiffusionLab

An escalator ribbon inside a glass flank along a corridor of identical doors, monolithic forms in flat light, sepia warmth in the highlights. Work 9866.

A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys. Work 9865.

Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone. Work 9855.

A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.

Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.

A scallop-canopied fireplace of pale veined marble with a folded cloth over one arm, 1902, the manager stood where he always stood, centred lobby interior plate. Work 9835.

A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock. Work 9834.

The last century of the leech: an aromatic brass syringe in a velvet bed, woodcut with the colour outside the line, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 9833.

A crocketed gable above a saint in the hall of a red brick villa, the light is wrong after noon. Work 9829.

An oil-slick felt duck with webbed cardboard feet inside a room hung in black wool, the early 2000s, school programme insert film. Work 9813.

Aerial perspective fading to pale grey of a shadow-vaulted turf maze, Christmas 1947, a colour print left in a sunny window. Work 9802.

Geometric interior rendering of a floodlit from below crew member wiping a gloss white surface past an alcove lit cyan in the age of the lit floor. Work 9801.

A silver polished on a baize covered table in the style of a row of five porters facing the lens across a lobby far too large for one guest, the season before the survey. Work 9784.

Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

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 watermark dandy roll in an Ethiopian rock church, fairground lettering panel, a shaft of light across the floor. Work 9701.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9684.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black. Work 9649.

A shaft of sun standing in a gallery inside a corridor with a bright end, dream sequence stone still, long lens stacking the towers. Work 9643.

Hand coloured natural history plate of air intake grilles in a concrete flank in the years of the sealed windows, body colour over a pencil line. Work 9642.

An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones. Work 9638.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 9632.

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 bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still. Work 9594.

A relief globe of moulded plaster and a title block lettered by hand past a brass turnstile at a door, the spring the globes arrived, lit to read every sounding figure. Work 9593.

The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.