The collection · DiffusionLab

The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots. Work 9901.

A bright video-bloomed crew member in a headset grinning, the autumn season of 1978, costume illustration in marker, heavy contrast under hard lamps. Work 9900.

Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.

A Rai stone in bell bottoms with a hem that drags, the Baroque years, UFO sighting photograph, Lomography Color Negative 400. Work 9897.

Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.

A figure with three collars stacked upward, portrait with a tape measure left in, it stood up on its own afterwards, daylight balanced stock under soft boxes. Work 9859.

Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight. Work 9853.

A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.

Licensing inspection photograph of a town square, Ektachrome E100G, Fujicolor Superia 200. Work 9818.

A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.

Rubber stamp print artwork of a sound man with headphones on one ear, reversal film with blocked highlights, open reel video tape frame. Work 9779.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 9774.

An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut. Work 9730.

A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.

The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.

A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.

Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base. Work 9712.

A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9697.

An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.

Muted pastels in a cold interior of a German nutcracker soldier in the Swiss Style years, K-14 processed Kodachrome. Work 9683.

A Zulu isicholo hat, blueprint elevation, she looked up too late, copy shot slightly off square. Work 9679.

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead. Work 9669.

A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet. Work 9662.

Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.

Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.

A crew applauding at the end of a take and a deadpan crew of four in matching overalls beneath a pipe gallery in oxblood, the spring run of 1977, contact sheet frame from a tape day. Work 9650.

Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black. Work 9649.

Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 9648.