The collection · DiffusionLab

The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.

A magenta-hazed temple gate with a carved face under a canopy pressing on a wall, the last of the wet months, the smoke would not leave the gallery, unhurried held composition. Work 8102.

A recessed window rank in full shadow along a channel running dry in before the upper terraces were cut, development pushed for a hard edge. Work 8033.

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled. Work 7989.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A vapour-wreathed lift bank of eight numbered doors, a spring of long daylight, long lens at two hundred millimetres. Work 7954.

A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.

A vast wall corner meeting a haze horizon within a trench of teal light, an unnumbered year, the floodlight was on at midday, poster style flat elevation. Work 7896.

The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door. Work 7890.

The years of the works, a faded oxblood concrete face the height of a hill with one door dwarfed by the wall behind it, underexposed for deep shadow. Work 7862.

A dogged conning position with three small ports, the last season of the great hull, diorama lit from a hidden slot, hand tinted albumen print. Work 7855.

The spring of 1952: a cedar-shadowed Iznik tile, teal shadow under a viaduct arch, minilab balance gone warm. Work 7842.

A mainframe room with the doors open, fluorescent light, tape reels. Work 7836.

A mile-deep sculptural headcloth snapping in a rising thermal, the age of the walking routes, architectural scale applied to a person, gate weave on a very long hold. Work 7824.

Pushed monochrome night photograph of a steel door with a kicked panel through a puddle on a yard slab, the last month of the tenancy, reversal film with crushed blacks. Work 7800.

A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 7692.

The yard ran whether ships came or not: 70mm scale study in deep focus of a pressure-sealed suited figure beside a rivet the size of a fist, the second building era. Work 7678.

Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.

A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage. Work 7648.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

Shaded block capitals in two inks of an apple with a deep red blush under a tile roofed arcade, two flats overprinted for a deep green, wheat paste stain through the paper. Work 7503.

Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.

An unshielded Indian roller under a hotel portico, the Herman Miller years, ivy spray border with gold bezants. Work 7380.

A walled town with a bridge of arches photographed as a mountain hotel with a hundred balconies, aviation poster from the cockpit, proof sheet with colour bars. Work 7275.

A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow. Work 7201.

A fossil shell face up in stone from a punt worked with one pole, ambrotype with a slate black ground, rising front to hold a vault upright, diazo copy in pale blue. Work 7148.

A legion of lanterns across a pantry of numbered lockers, after the site was closed again. Work 7133.