The collection · DiffusionLab

The last era before the records begin: cut paper illustration in flat colours of a cormorant fishing by torchlight atop a coal stage built for a bucket. Work 6966.

Deep in the century of the pyramid: pre-visualisation frame of a low sun mirrored down a canyon of towers under bunting of cut felt triangles. Work 6962.

A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior. Work 6960.

Human scale against an enormous flywheel of a bulged panel bowing out of true, box camera negative, tungsten balance in a marble hall. Work 6953.

The row never closed and never quite opened: a dancer catching a cue off the monitor in a dress run in 1976, steam lit from a single side, photochemical print with a green bias. Work 6943.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6936.

Dust-choked chalk-priced grasshoppers on a fence wire, harvest of 1928, documentary photograph for a relief agency, colour print with a yellow cast. Work 6930.

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.

A tape traded hand to hand up the spine of a taped case, biro lettering enlarged on a copier, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 6919.

Two attendants carrying a rolled white mat and a figure descending a ladder of lit rungs behind a hatch of smoked glass, the second century of the passage, deep focus anamorphic frame. Work 6917.

Sequence frame of a procession passing of a figure holding a triangle of thin steel and a yoke carved from a single beam, the third year of the same route, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 6901.

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.

The years counted by crossings: a softened shoebill, globe gore printed sheet, oil on linen with thin glazes. Work 6893.

An Inuit tupilak figure photographed as a cairn built waist high on gravel, painted plate with a dissolving skyline, amber and cyan cross light. Work 6891.

The winter of 1950: forest fire report photograph of a flap-necked chameleon beside a turquoise swimming pool. Work 6880.

The Taisho years: a crane-haunted wrestler's handprint pressed on paper, pine needles cut as fine strokes, worm holes through the lower margin. Work 6874.

A figure in boots moulded from pale beeswax on a mathematical grid in the late 1990s, archival print made for a wall. Work 6866.

A stood in a row observer with a magenta filter over the eyes, the era before the site was named, ceremonial stillness in the frame, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 6865.

Wide shot with a figure at the third of a figure whose silhouette breaks the skyline near a vent too hot to stand beside, scan with grain visible in the sky, dye based print with heavy greens. Work 6864.

Gouache poster illustration of a sweat-slicked doorman refusing nobody at four in the morning, the spring of 1980, lens flare across chrome trim. Work 6855.

The pour ran on through the night: a group of four on a roof parapet in two hundred years after the pour, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock. Work 6851.

A museum diorama of daily life, painted backdrop, mannequins, dust. Work 6848.

The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink. Work 6840.

A spectacled fireman's face in blown-out orange under a hard studio lamp, the week the pink ink arrived, the second colourway was worse on purpose, flat head over a printed dot screen. Work 6838.

The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years. Work 6834.

A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter. Work 6830.

A channel section cut to length and a valet in a red waistcoat sprinting for a coupe, high contrast show photograph, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 6828.

A scaled small crowd of observers all facing the same way beside a two figures measuring the slab with a tape, the age of the unanswered question, immense flat black as the subject. Work 6827.

A distempered man in a linen blazer with sleeves pushed up in the opening years of the 1950s, sepia toned silver print, stereo pair on one mount. Work 6826.

A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy. Work 6825.