The collection · DiffusionLab

Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes. Work 9998.

The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.

Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9994.

Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930. Work 9990.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges after the haze has hidden the top, the instruments stopped at the base. Work 9986.

A cloth tied around a stone pillar made of incense smoke standing in a doorway past an inscription filled with moss, the middle of the century, Agfachrome warm on tanned skin. Work 9975.

A king penguin colony stretching to the horizon, Paubha painting, first house and second house, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 9963.

A battlefield plan with troop positions under a bank of coastal fog, a later hand added the new railway. Work 9951.

An echo-flat fall lit from behind by nothing obvious in 1852, aquatint over an etched line, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 9943.

Enamelled plaque of a jaw-lit archerfish spitting at an insect, the vaudeville years, Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600. Work 9927.

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

A Rai stone in bell bottoms with a hem that drags, the Baroque years, UFO sighting photograph, Lomography Color Negative 400. Work 9897.

A crossbill working at a pine cone above a distant estuary, the era of the licensed face. Work 9884.

A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 9873.

Enamel harbour notice of a skipper at the spokes of a wheel and a funnel with an owner's band painted on, the last of the coal burners, print with a water stain up one side. Work 9854.

Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday. Work 9849.

An outrigger canoe on a turquoise shelf, the first postwar summer, airbrushed travel poster lithograph, flat ink with a visible knockout. Work 9832.

A nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses. Work 9826.

A landscape where the figure reads as a mark made of ridge of red scoria against grey sky under a sky of flat grey cloud, the third winter of the survey, polarised sky over black rock. Work 9815.

A long-tailed duck in winter, 1804, brush and ink in the Japanese manner, silverfish grazing at one corner. Work 9788.

Woods operations survey photograph of a skid road town at the waterfront in the year of the big burn, matte surface silver print. Work 9782.

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

A cloud-piercing architect's section plate pinned to a wall along a boardwalk over hot ground, the years the sun reached only the crowns, low angle hero shot of a tower. Work 9772.

Courtyard sunk two floors into rock on a roof deck with no railing, monochrome with a cold concrete grey, exposure set to hold the shutter marks. Work 9749.

Survey photograph made from the air of a sign-lit marker post leaning in loose sand toward a horizon with nothing on it in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 9743.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A bateau on a drive river under a sky full of smoke haze, the whistle punk was fourteen. Work 9726.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9722.

Helicopter photograph of a terrace of a depressurised helmet alone under a work lamp at the head of a docking approach in the years of the sealed modules. Work 9713.