The collection · DiffusionLab

1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.

A crate-nailed palm avenue leading to a house against a sky of graded cobalt, 1927, stipple shading on fruit skin. Work 9391.

A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows. Work 9387.

A raw-edged jungle guide in the closing years of the 1940s, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, Fujichrome Velvia 100. Work 9302.

The winter after the crop failed: country weekly photograph of an elevator shadow long across a grid road at the end of an elevator spur. Work 9202.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

A pool with a perfectly level surface between two matched rock pillars, nobody found where the light came from. Work 9147.

Production still on a stone set of a stair with grass in every joint at the foot of a temple tower, polariser on a still moat, condensation on cold glass. Work 8998.

A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64. Work 8927.

A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.

A kimono spread open on a rack beside a stone water basin in 1842, round censor's seal at the edge. Work 8768.

A lean to roofed with banana leaf beside a green shuttered window in the last hours of daylight, colour graded warm and heavy, half-tone on a heavy art paper. Work 8734.

A river with its tributaries named and a price crossed out and made free, woodland shown by small tree symbols, flyer folded in four in a pocket. Work 8716.

Muted ochre against near black of a catchment terrace angled to a cistern between a stair and a sheer drop, architectural transparency on daylight film, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 8709.

A hundred lifetimes of watching, a hacked path closing behind in dense jungle, grain heavy blow up, graduated green filter. Work 8645.

A cash-rich moa browsing in a New Zealand forest, the spring of 1955, dissolving view slide, press flash negative in a holder. Work 8626.

Gold haze thick enough to hide the far wood of a sap-streaked bell hung from a beam between trees among ferns breaking through carved steps in an age before the wood was measured. Work 8585.

A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows. Work 8497.

The middle term: architectural interior plate in flat light of a courtyard fountain dry in a stone floor across an acre of polished stone. Work 8406.

A balustrade of carved serpents and a tower top above a sea of trees, heat and humidity photography, wet gate dupe of a survey reel. Work 8384.

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 tovshuur beneath a mountain wall far behind, the closing years of the 1930s. Work 8311.

The New Kingdom: concept plate of a deep cistern of a brass band on a bandstand in drizzle beside a row of pollarded trees. Work 8294.

A column of figures with bells on poles in front of a cottage in flower, he grew it for the show and nothing else. Work 8279.

A weeping willow over a tomb in a net barking shed, the Saudi oil boom. Work 8259.

A bell bench for six seated men made of stone pier footing grown over with weed against a wall of dressed blocks, the season of the shallow works, orthochromatic plate through green water. Work 8238.

A carving-lined carving furred with grey lichen beside a stone basin of green water, a day the stone stayed cool, a clerk numbered the sheets out of order, mirrored tower framing. Work 8206.

Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.

A fern-screened white ring around a hundred trees inside a suit with the lamp on, the third day inland, nobody had cut this path, extreme widescreen jungle frame. Work 8175.

A rain coming through the canopy in ropes and a shaft of light on wet leaves amid moths around a flare, the short tropical dusk, two colour lighting still. Work 8106.