The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

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

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide. Work 9407.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

New Year 1972, a coal hole cover in a doorway with a slatted mat, Kodachrome in a paper mount, glossy print with a white border. Work 9389.

A brass turnstile at a hall entrance round a mahogany column of brass rings in 1824, frontal cabinet elevation, silver gelatin print on matt paper. Work 9331.

The summer holidays of 1968: a lint flecked plasticine lion with a wool mane, title sequence over a clay landscape, 16mm colour negative printed to positive. Work 9330.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.

A figure standing on a plate that curves away, rigid one-point framing, the manifest listed a mass and nothing else, release print with dense blacks. Work 9236.

A brass microscope on a mahogany plinth through an open bulkhead door in the year the lamps were fitted, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic. Work 9212.

A window wall of panes in matched frames and a pair of sconces either side of a door, figure backlit in a doorway of light, lantern slide bound in tape. Work 9205.

Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

A rancho gate of peeled poles against a sky of graded cobalt, the last season before cartons, sign painter's shaded capitals, chalk price wiped from the surface. Work 9164.

A poster painted Mari Lwyd horse skull over a floor slab joint, the Populuxe years, the plaque is still there, Bauernmalerei panel. Work 9160.

The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.

A lift bank with eight illuminated doors among a shift crossing the concourse in the decade the sky was sold in lots, large format transparency on a light box. Work 9156.

A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 9149.

Joke glasses with a nose inside a hangar with the doors open, 1-bit dither bitmap, stopped down for the whole court. Work 9148.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.

A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.

A near-empty single steel hatch numbered 04 in a blank wall, the closing schedule, sectional schematic of a wall, hand tinted print in pale colours. Work 9121.

An old paper going soft and grey with the face left uncovered, the second week of a fitting, flash-lit wall at night, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 9119.