The collection · DiffusionLab

A sun-backed rotor blades blurred into a grey disc through a curtain of spray, the short season of clear mornings, the shadow arrived first, 70mm silhouette frame. Work 6944.

Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.

Isometric tower schematic of a crowd at the tower foot looking up in the fourth quarter of the long expansion, aircraft lights as short trails. Work 6925.

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.

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.

Rock face rendered in patient relief of a shaft of sun striking one tower only among boulders the size of houses, wood engraving on end grain, sepia toned bromide print. Work 6908.

A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 6902.

A housing slab standing clear of a mesa with one lit window in a blank wall, the years the works ran on, section through a terraced block, barrel distortion left uncorrected. Work 6900.

A broken column upright among saplings, the year the mill was built, fixer stained print, photocopy with correction fluid showing. Work 6894.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6888.

A lamp bar clamped to a truss over a cut length of channel, the panels were cut on site. Work 6884.

A flock lawned half height terrace at the back with a foil puddle at the kerb, the age of the exhibition layout, enamel colour under photofloods. Work 6881.

Poster reduced to circle and bar of a rooftop view straight down a street in the years of the new typography, folded in eight and opened flat. Work 6877.

A smudge-smoked wave tank with a ripple pattern, the year before the electron was named, blue holding while the yellow went. Work 6875.

A crush of splintered props along a street of thumbed clay houses, the teatime slot of 1970. Work 6871.

Construction photograph of a dome shell of an orbital diagram painted on a panel, scan lines across a dome image, points of light slightly out of round. Work 6854.

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 city wall with its gates and bastions made of azimuthal projection centred on a pole inside the pilot sphere, the last hand coloured issue, archive scan of a brittle folded sheet. Work 6844.

1907, a steam-hazed portable camp buildings on flat cars among stumps the height of a man, dime novel cover illustration. Work 6823.

The end of a long afternoon, a garland laid across a stone lap in an empty inner courtyard, wet gate dupe of a survey reel, archival positive with green shadow. Work 6815.

A service tower rising above the roofs never finished above the sixth floor, the century of the cut settlements, documentary architectural survey plate, metallic gold ink in the title. Work 6809.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 6804.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6791.

A door of steel plate set in concrete in the style of a slab wall with a grid of deep windows without a tree anywhere in sight, the second era of the quarries. Work 6790.

The console lamps lit the operator's face: dome maintenance record photograph of an oil-smelling worm gear on a polar axis, 1923. Work 6786.

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 6783.