The collection · DiffusionLab

A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.

Two hundred years after the pour: a vent hood the size of a house beneath a walkway bridging two blocks, survey frame with the horizon level, photochemical print with a grey base. Work 10171.

A chain-wrapped carcass of a burnt-out sedan in the decade the roads went quiet, red filter darkening a grey sky, silver gelatin print on fibre paper. Work 10163.

Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper. Work 10157.

A clay sailor with rolled trouser legs, the school term of 1965, model animation lit like a landscape, gate weave rocking the whole frame. Work 10152.

A resin poured into a plaster mould photographed as a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, grey rock against warm lamplight, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 10151.

Vertical format for a standing colossus of a weather-blunted tower at each end of a bridge, the years the quarry worked, gouache on grey-toned stock. Work 10149.

A bagel with a cloud of cream cheese after the wind dropped to nothing, signal station photograph, cold-toned print in a blue grey. Work 10141.

The year the liner was launched: a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake beside a porthole window, press photograph from the period, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 10137.

A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare. Work 10124.

A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail. Work 10118.

A teasel full of seeds and snow across a folded paper insert in the age of the zeppelin, collotype on thin coated paper. Work 10116.

A mute model sailboat pond, the Polaroid years, newspaper morgue file print, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 10114.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 10112.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground. Work 10104.

Stopped down to hold the far end of a balsa built painted tarmac with a white centre line within a town two metres across in the demo before the demo. Work 10103.

He grew it for the show and nothing else: line block with flat colour behind of a penny dahlia bloom the size of a plate, 1918. Work 10101.

A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop. Work 10090.

A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand. Work 10087.

1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10086.

Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept. Work 10085.

A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes. Work 10081.

A unit cell of common salt, spread with one bright figure on black, the plates were cut with a jeweller's saw, cloth backed sheet folded into eight. Work 10070.

1997: a sunstruck last frame of a roll, hotel brochure photograph with cars, monochrome print at postcard size. Work 10062.

An air hostess pointing to an exit with the sound word lettered across it, the hundredth issue, dotted illustration with no grey in it, two flats meeting with a white gap. Work 10060.

A tweeded plaza the size of a parade ground, the age of the great excavations, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 10056.

A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture. Work 10055.

The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.

Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.