The collection · DiffusionLab

A perfumed woman in a tailored waistcoat holding two flutes beside a couple wrapped in a white quilt on black hide, the last good quarter, poster illustration in hot enamel colour. Work 7087.

An airless bolted-together suit stand with a helmet on the shelf, the last of the crewed stations, concept illustration in cold greys, lith print with a crushed shadow. Work 7086.

A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf. Work 7085.

An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.

A reservoir with a concrete spillway, the last season before cartons, graded sky from orange to violet, stipple stone giving a soft tone. Work 7066.

Stone and water treated as one material of a haze-greyed gold light coming in low through a door in the fifth bay gone to pale grey in the age when gold was still on the plaster. Work 7064.

Surface satin stitch with no padding of a radiator with gilled tubes outlined in back stitch, the mid Victorian decades. Work 7062.

The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7042.

A column strung out over a mile below a crest smoking in the wind, the season the wells all held. Work 7027.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

The post-apartheid years: a blind-stamped flooded court with a fountain rim awash, banded early flatbed scan, slight halation around the lit edge. Work 7023.

A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom. Work 7019.

The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box. Work 7016.

Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface. Work 7013.

White space treated as a shape of a slatted chair of plain oak across a folded leaflet's panels, 1919, phototypeset headline in one weight. Work 7005.

Frontal frame from a shot list of a half sectioned iron bedstead, the first year of the internet, impression taken before the lettering. Work 7002.

An unshaded line-abreast salt pyramid taller than a rider, the years measured in blocks lifted, value study with almost no mid tone, scratch crossing a blank area. Work 6979.

Folding screen composition of a silk reeler at a spinning wheel and a warrior wrestling a giant carp, 1865, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 6977.

Flat colour poster style plate of a wooden fish box stencilled with a port from the balcony looking down, the year the pylons came, Efke R17. Work 6976.

A rocket nosecone in a scrapyard and a pelota court, botanical type specimen photograph, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 6971.

Lubricant poster illustration of a woman in a silk dress on a picnic rug below tipping slag on a hillside, heliogravure plate in a folio, dye transfer print from three negatives. Work 6967.

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.

Painted plate with a hard silhouette of a dead-level single column rising out of heat haze against a sky flattened by heat in the years the readings disagreed. Work 6940.

The key came back on the wrong hook: baths of white tile in a row in the months nobody travelled by day, wide angle interior with true verticals, registration soft on the far ridge. Work 6931.

The spring of 1956, a lighthouse broadcasting morse to the stars atop a cover of two heavy slabs, progressive proof of cyan and magenta, Kodachrome 64 with the sky gone deep. Work 6929.

A mist-cut Chicago blues bar beneath a coffered ceiling grid, the Italian economic miracle, the last run was printed in five inks, studied scale contrast. Work 6923.

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.