The collection · DiffusionLab

A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

Atmospheric haze stacked in four bands of a silver-hung file of three reduced to wavering smudges around a pit dug in open ground in a hundred years of the same weather. Work 8412.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

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.

Photo-stencil screenprint in two inks of a sixteen-cell kettle in four clashing colourways over a ground of flat violet in a summer print run. Work 8079.

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

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

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.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

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.

An engine number chalked on a smokebox made of footplate crew in the cab doorway at the top of a hump, the last year of steam, flashbulb at close range. Work 7318.

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 steam locomotive seen head on under an arch of block letters, the middle 1950s, Cyrillic brand word in block capitals, abraded surface from a pocket. Work 7182.

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 dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work. Work 7024.

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 belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

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.