The collection · DiffusionLab

Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 9463.

A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9462.

A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras. Work 9461.

The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned. Work 9460.

A crew member with a helmet tucked under an arm, arc light blowing out one corner, the suit was three sizes off and worn anyway, colour negative timed for the suit whites. Work 9459.

Something had cleared the leaves in a ring: long exposure smoothing a shallow stream of a slow-grown seated stone figure gone green with moss, the years before the track was cut. Work 9458.

Diagram of a crossover in outline of coloured floods washing the maple in a Saturday afternoon in 1980, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 9457.

The Basel school years: diagram as the whole composition of a record sleeve of concentric rings on a table of pale linoleum. Work 9456.

A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam. Work 9455.

A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame. Work 9454.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.

A scaffolding grid over a facade at the foot of a chimney stack, the first years of photomontage. Work 9451.

A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.

1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9449.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

A British afternoon tea tray behind a screen of leaves, long lens compression along a bore, panchromatic negative on flat film. Work 9447.

A weather-greyed oil-soaked planking grain ticket book on a counter, the dust years, pen and ink illustration of a grain town, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 9446.

The trolley came up three times before noon: presentation plate for a shareholder report of a chalk-pastel promenade deck with a sloped window wall, the year the gantry was built. Work 9445.

A shade-thrown bridge deck crossing a dry gorge beside a buttress rank holding a terrace back, after the outposts were joined, science fiction production illustration. Work 9444.

The height of the motor show boom, a chrome-bumpered couple beside a coupe with the doors raised with driving gloves still on, corporate portrait beside a company coupe. Work 9443.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A headstone with an unreadable epitaph, wet plate collodion, moss. Work 9441.

A fish and chips on a windy pier who does not speak, the VHS years, silver stained glass roundel, a torn corner. Work 9440.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 9439.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

A file of walkers with cymbals held flat within a temple of carved plaster, the rubber split on frame four hundred. Work 9437.

A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 9436.

A mineral spring pavilion past a machine parked and switched off, 500 BC. Work 9435.

A bristling Japanese maple beside a four door saloon, the grunge years, cold blue shadow against orange lamp. Work 9434.