The collection · DiffusionLab

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

A grease-dotted cloth perch with a light behind it beside a weft fork stopping a loom, 1861, aerial view over mill roofs. Work 6764.

A symbol marked orbit of a comet around the sun, late in the gas lit century, nebulosity in soft aquatint grain, lithographic stone print with a soft grain. Work 6760.

Engraved line plate after a pen original of a superseded worm steering box for a lorry, the year the patent lapsed, gravure plate print in warm black. Work 6748.

A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth. Work 6735.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.

An immense white-striped leech on a wet ankle, the month the flares ran out, bloomed highlight frame, front element fogged with damp. Work 6726.

A steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag. Work 6723.

Photolithograph from a wash original of a calibrated kilim, the autumn of 1969, flash negative with a blown centre. Work 6719.

A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red. Work 6712.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres. Work 6707.

The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre. Work 6702.

The road went on past the last gate: a grass growing in the joints of a road in the time of the great haulage, frontal record of a colossal gateway, 70mm negative with even fine grain. Work 6700.

A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy. Work 6698.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light. Work 6688.

A three figures at a corner for scale at the edge of a squared hole, the last of the deep soundings, survey photograph with a scale bar, frame printed full to the rebate. Work 6684.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

A rim deck curving up out of sight hanging off a line a hundred metres out, after the last resupply, specular highlight on bare metal, screen print in two flat tones. Work 6674.

1866, a far-walled tent pitched on a pale shore with its reflection completing the shape, scale given by a single small coat. Work 6673.

Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation. Work 6671.

A sounding wire through a hole in the ice, the early 1900s, published narrative frontispiece, ink title along the lower edge. Work 6651.

A fish hovering at the edge of the light over a drum of coiled hose, 1905, fold out plate of a whole apparatus, lithograph in five muted inks. Work 6648.

Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching. Work 6639.

1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome. Work 6633.

The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter. Work 6629.