The collection · DiffusionLab

A tweeded plaza the size of a parade ground, the age of the great excavations, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 10056.

The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.

Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.

A frost on the inside of an office window, harvest of 1928, fire insurance plan in ink and wash, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 10051.

The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.

A mast guyed with four matched wires in the style of an opening big enough for a locomotive in a gatehouse the size of a hut, the years of the works. Work 10049.

Slow pan across a model village of a clay lamp post bent slightly to the left beside a well with a string bucket, one long afternoon in 1969, archive copy with a splice at the head. Work 10048.

Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun. Work 10047.

A casino terrace above a corniche beside a pipe bundle sweating, enamel sign illustration, duotone in black and a flat blue. Work 10044.

A dragon swallowing its own tail amid the columns of a canon arch in around 1320, uterine vellum of great thinness. Work 10043.

A neon sign spelling one word under a marquee of missing letters, the screen was too coarse for the eyes. Work 10032.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

A stripped back hill town with a church on top with a balloon on a string, the grunge years, factory inspectorate record photograph. Work 10028.

Atmospheric depth in five bands of a stencilled numeral two metres tall in the shade of an undercroft, long after the architects left, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 10013.

The Bauhaus years: Kütahya tile of a shell keep before a wall the colour of wet clay. Work 10008.

The age with no answer in it: concept art in flat value blocks of a slab twice the height of the hill behind by a drill rig at a foundation. Work 10004.

Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.

Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9999.

1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9996.

A cloth tied around a stone pillar made of incense smoke standing in a doorway past an inscription filled with moss, the middle of the century, Agfachrome warm on tanned skin. Work 9975.

The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites. Work 9967.

A face in three quarter profile in a Prague courtyard in the spring of 1968, Gevacolor cold blues. Work 9965.

A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard. Work 9962.

The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade. Work 9959.

Studio model photograph of a pyramid tower with lit setbacks in a night in the coming century, shallow depth at T2. Work 9948.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

A shell-strung tripod steady Indian steel tiffin tower, the acid jazz years, Art Nouveau poster, infrared plate with black skies. Work 9942.

Ezra Stoller style photograph of a bush hammered site plan with contour lines, the reconstruction years, fill flash in a dark lobby. Work 9934.

A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate. Work 9931.

Anamorphic frame of dense forest of a mud printed with bare feet below a roof of leaves, the third day inland, front element fogged with damp. Work 9924.