The collection · DiffusionLab

A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare. Work 6237.

A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative. Work 6225.

The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp. Work 6220.

16mm archive footage frame of a donkey waiting on the sand in the holiday season, Kodachrome 25 transparency. Work 6219.

A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot. Work 6217.

A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame. Work 6210.

1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background. Work 6209.

A blind throwing bars across a wall beside a vending machine in 1949, Ektachrome 64. Work 6208.

Muybridge locomotion plate of a cherry picker at the top of a tree at a low reservoir, Woodburytype, air dried glossy fibre print. Work 6206.

Club logo in chrome lettering of a Lagos nightclub stage at a smoked glass table, the summer of 1979, harsh direct flash. Work 6205.

A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead. Work 6188.

A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight. Work 6182.

A paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines. Work 6181.

The lights went out at eleven: tourist brochure photograph of an out of season statue in a park in winter, 1977. Work 6178.

Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio. Work 6177.

A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair. Work 6170.

Kodachrome advertising photograph of a robot with a rotating antenna with an atom for a logo, the year Sputnik went up. Work 6168.

An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie. Work 6163.

A vodni mož at a Belgian kermesse, the first winter of the 1920s. Work 6161.

A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph. Work 6159.

The long summer of 1977, an inflatable ring floating alone under a floodlight, raking light across the deck, fingerprint on the emulsion. Work 6158.

Gouache architectural rendering of a hotel clerk under a bare bulb, shot on Agfa black and white negative, eggshell lacquer finish. Work 6152.

A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium. Work 6145.

A blackmailed wet cobbles under a lamp, the years right after the war, single source lighting. Work 6135.

A queue outside a building nobody enters, documentary photography, overcast. Work 6121.

A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years. Work 6118.

Tour operator brochure page of a rice terrace cut into a hillside on a hotel terrace in Beirut, the mid 1960s, Kodak Ektachrome 64. Work 6116.

A mustard yellow starburst patterned toy shop window of tin robots, 1947, diorama with a painted backdrop, silver gelatin print. Work 6114.

The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer. Work 6106.

Pen and ink illustration of a lettering painted on frosted glass under a street lamp in the fog, eight to one lighting ratio, haze in a hard backlight. Work 6104.