The collection · DiffusionLab

A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

A snow-blind tent floor of reindeer skin left standing for the next party, 1912, stores inventory sheet. Work 8899.

Gouache elevation of a facade of a candlewick-covered glacier tongue behind a pastel facade, the week the expedition arrived, pastel chalk on cream stock. Work 8898.

A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue. Work 8883.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

A summer with the pan hard all through, a windrow of salt raked into a line on ground with no shadow on it, 65mm negative exposed for a white ground, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 8849.

An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.

A calved plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi, the summer of 1911, overexposed snow with no detail. Work 8675.

The years of the false readings, a figure standing at the base looking up behind a drift piled on one side, screen print in four flat greys, low speed emulsion with a long scale. Work 8668.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

Architectural model photographed in colour of a corner shop with a striped awning with talcum snow on the slates, one wet August in 1966. Work 8624.

A salt-ringed forked post holding a crossbeam behind a wall of stacked loads, the season every herd came at once, dark robes against pale limestone. Work 8593.

A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow. Work 8560.

An off-season hands up in the front row of the stands behind the house band glass, the winter run of 1979, interior decoration scheme in pastel. Work 8550.

1905: a bear track beside a boot print by the light of a blubber lamp, reproduced diary page, snow glare flattening every form. Work 8509.

A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash. Work 8505.

The season the brine never rose, a pyramid of salt with a figure beside it at the edge of a drying pan, dye transfer print in white and indigo, one stop over for a dark garment. Work 8460.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.

A hire purchased procession in single file on a chalk road along a kerb pressed out of clay, the year the supermarket opened, it came out too dark, workhouse register photograph. Work 8331.

Ski school notice in flat inks of a wooden stave church in deep snow and a coral island with a single palm, the late 1920s, magenta misregister by a hair. Work 8327.

A barograph trace on a slow drum beyond the last town light in the late 1890s, lithograph in two inks. Work 8323.

An ice auger turning in thick floe with two hundred miles to go, the mid 1920s, depot location sketch map, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 8263.

A battery stall with terminals bare, a winter far down the next century, dense foreground occlusion, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 8254.

A heat column rising with no cloud above made of walker stopped with its back to the sun above a band of shivering air, the far end of a long afternoon, 4x5 transparency in full glare. Work 8204.

The season before the survey began, a mountain hut roped to a ridge beside a white esplanade rail, halftone only in the sky, blue faded toward grey. Work 8149.

A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.