The collection · DiffusionLab

The old survey of the way, a sand-drifted bridge wide enough for two colossal figures carved before the road was paved, section through a bridge pier. Work 9083.

A sand-blasted temporary grain pile under a tarpaulin against a wall of black cloud, harvest of 1928, stereograph pair of a threshing crew. Work 9060.

A dish array in a ring on flat hardpan with the plate still wet, before the dune sea was mapped, popular astronomy magazine halftone, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 8960.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

A dune-crossing white noon with no shadow to walk in along a knife-edged dune crest, the season the wells all held, the train crossed its own track, keyframe illustration of a long crossing. Work 8869.

An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in. Work 8808.

A portfolio of ten heads, a garish apprentice's head in flat sand reduced to a black plate and a pink, portrait printed on stiff white board. Work 8780.

Presentation plate for a learned society of a wall of mudbrick one storey high in three days of continuous hauling, magnesium ribbon burnt on a shore. Work 8628.

A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width. Work 8551.

Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25. Work 8548.

A shell beach made of tiny white shells made of gallery of columns filled with haze past a row of bathing huts, the mid-century modern years, headlight trails. Work 8515.

Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8414.

A grit-blasted doorway cut into the side of a dune, the third survey century, frame line printed slightly low. Work 8330.

Sledge design line figure of a lead of black water through the floe off a barren coast, hand tinted with thin washes, album page with corner mounts. Work 8288.

Ultra wide composition with two thirds sky of a salt-stiffened column of figures crossing a dune crest, a week of unbroken white sky, five perf 65mm stock rated slow. Work 8203.

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

A ridge after ridge to a white sky photographed as a guide pointing at an empty horizon, hyperreal render with grain in the air, dye transfer print in indigo and sand. Work 8038.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8019.

Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens. Work 7790.

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.

A bore casing rising from bare rock made of hull plate leaning against a dune under the wing of a stopped flyer, the third survey century, tungsten stock pulled in the heat. Work 7737.

A column drum half buried in sand, 1864, cutaway of a helmet and breastplate, sepia wash on laid paper. Work 7713.

A file of porters under a white sun and a rotor blade planted upright as a marker, rotor plate taken over a dune field, acrylic on a primed hardboard panel. Work 7696.

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 triple tail fin above a silver wing, archaeological survey photograph, the dome went dark and the room hushed, sand highlight clipped to white. Work 7541.

Symmetrical composition between two figures of a soot-darkened stone jetty running out into shallow water, the first crossing of the gorge, wet collodion on a large glass plate. Work 7533.

A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.

A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.