The collection · DiffusionLab

An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular. Work 8711.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 8707.

A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.

A sun disc doubled in the river and a fisherman standing in a narrow canoe, scale study of a boat and a bank, wet gate printed dupe. Work 8641.

Machinery portrait on a plinth of a suited pair reflected in a curved bulkhead in some year after the last window was sealed, negative exposed for the highlights. Work 8640.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

A shell beach made of tiny white shells made of gallery of columns filled with haze past a row of bathing huts, the mid-century modern years, headlight trails. Work 8515.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

A chicha morada astern of the towing ship, the autumn of 1987. Work 8253.

A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth. Work 8235.

Colour timed toward magenta of a marigold-hung half sunk barge with a tree growing out of it among dugouts and nets in the monsoon years. Work 8226.

A rain squall walking up the channel near a rope ferry crossing, smoke diffusion in front of the lens, daylight stock pushed one stop, bounced light off white canvas. Work 8205.

1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.

Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments. Work 8133.

Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.

The baths were built too late: an inrush water pumped from a sump in 1900, seaside resort harbour poster, watercolour wash on cold pressed paper. Work 8030.

A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.

A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.

An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.