The collection · DiffusionLab

Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24. Work 8942.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

1883: a woman in a headwrap with a rum glass under a squall crossing the bay, pen and ink with mechanical ruling, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 8888.

The ship moved half a mile with the floe: ballistic photograph of a light hearted Chinese embroidered silk screen, the autumn of 1975. Work 8873.

The Algerian War years: a tugboat nudging a liner within a turning ring station, flat shaded polygon render, bulb flash on a dark terrace. Work 8793.

A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.

An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular. Work 8711.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 8707.

Machinery portrait on a plinth of a suited pair reflected in a curved bulkhead in some year after the last window was sealed, negative exposed for the highlights. Work 8640.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

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.

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

A chicha morada astern of the towing ship, the autumn of 1987. Work 8253.

A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth. Work 8235.

Colour timed toward magenta of a marigold-hung half sunk barge with a tree growing out of it among dugouts and nets in the monsoon years. Work 8226.

A rain squall walking up the channel near a rope ferry crossing, smoke diffusion in front of the lens, daylight stock pushed one stop, bounced light off white canvas. Work 8205.

1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.

Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.

A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.

A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.