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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.

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 grey-going staple row along a telephone pole peeled back to the layer beneath, the winter the paste froze, photograph of a photocopy on a wall. Work 8041.

The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door. Work 7890.

Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide. Work 7619.

Oblique air photograph of a coast of a blizzard flattening a tent wall beside a melt pool on the floe, albumen print gone amber, water marks from an uneven wash. Work 7606.

Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 7574.

Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks. Work 7429.

An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.

A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag. Work 7173.

A black figure on a sheet of pure white before the wind comes across the pan, the sled came back lighter than it went. Work 7045.

A canvas-walled hole in the floe rimmed with slush behind a snow block wall, the winter of 1915, glass plate exposure in the cold. Work 7026.

The second slab was never opened: a theodolite on a tripod facing a monolith in the year the railway was added, streets left white between ruled blocks, polarised sky over pale concrete. Work 6780.

An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.

A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun. Work 6693.

A marquee on a lawn made of full length portrait in a gilt frame on a driveway with the wagon parked, the late 1920s, snow from a weak aerial signal. Work 6531.

A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust. Work 6482.

A tunnel boring machine in an igloo, Polaroid emulsion lift, shallow depth of field at f2, an X-ray fogged roll from an airport. Work 6462.

The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator. Work 6409.

A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window. Work 6213.

A gravel sweep in front of a house made of place slip in copperplate at Gstaad in winter, 1948, long exposure indoors. Work 6207.

The lights went out at eleven: tourist brochure photograph of an out of season statue in a park in winter, 1977. Work 6178.

A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath. Work 6175.

Romanesque wall painting of a train stuck in snow in a Tanzanian spice market, pipe glow. Work 5657.

A nostalgic snowed-in Tilley lamp, Ndebele house painting, a sonnet about gravel, sun faded print. Work 5647.

A zebra in a snowstorm, wildlife photography, telephoto, high contrast. Work 5614.