The collection · DiffusionLab

An oppressive flyer circling a vertical face, the second era of the watchers, photoreal render with volumetric haze, polariser deepening a pale sky. Work 8737.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.

A dead-level cable dropped down a sheer face, before the second one was found, concept art in flat value blocks, five colour offset on matte stock. Work 8583.

Naive figures worked out of proportion of a maker's name and her age in small letters worked in two shades of green, the mid Victorian decades. Work 8552.

The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8468.

Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.

Deadpan frontal framing of a beam of sun standing in smoke at the treeline in coloured haze, 70mm print graded green, condensation on the front element. Work 8418.

The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 8304.

A row of six identical heads inside a lift of mirrored panels, high contrast portrait in two tones, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 8273.

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.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8180.

A miner's head in flat black and white against a tiled underground wall, the season of the loud palette, screenprint head over a halftone photo, cheap process print on a folded sheet. Work 8162.

Glass shot reference photograph of a soldier's face in flat olive against a shutter of mint boards, the 1960s, slide taped and numbered. Work 8112.

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky. Work 8006.

The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film. Work 7999.

Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black. Work 7726.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7717.

The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 7698.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7687.

Serial head print in eight variants of a cropped tight self portrait in flat pink, the season of the loud palette, moire over a rescreened source. Work 7673.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7667.

Silhouetted figure at a great window of a factory floor with every machine silent, daylight stock gone amber, varnish over a printed plate. Work 7611.