The collection · DiffusionLab

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

A wristbanded light well dropping sixty floors, the years after the tower fires, panned exposure at a sixtieth. Work 8300.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn. Work 8129.

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

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

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.

The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages. Work 7539.

Wide anamorphic frame with a small walker of a rope-bound fissure breathing steam along its length, late autumn of an unnamed year, seventy millimetre colour negative. Work 7491.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare. Work 7345.

A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away. Work 7300.

A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate. Work 7195.

A frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light. Work 7118.

An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck. Work 7102.

A monolithic sealed half-built setback with exposed steel, the years after the tower fires, annual report photography, daylight balance at cloud height. Work 7031.

The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box. Work 7016.

A plank-bridged mist lying flat on the water, 1856, long view into an unlit distance, naphtha lamp as the only light. Work 6998.

Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod. Work 6948.

The row never closed and never quite opened: a dancer catching a cue off the monitor in a dress run in 1976, steam lit from a single side, photochemical print with a green bias. Work 6943.

Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air. Work 6895.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.

A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration. Work 6677.