The collection · DiffusionLab

Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 8952.

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A vetehinen and a hunt meet outside a country inn in the last bay before the dark, the Benin kingdom years, kalamkari panel. Work 8932.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.

A hangar-bound bow cap of riveted panels in the first season of the mast, cyanotype of an engineering plate, gum bichromate in two pulls. Work 8887.

A thick-inked fishwife's head in sour pink behind a microphone on a boom, the last print of the series, one head was pulled upside down, multiple portrait of one head. Work 8874.

Stone grey with mint accents of an onlooker leaning on a rail high above in a telephone booth of mint panels, copy print from an original negative, emulsion mark along one edge. Work 8861.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 8858.

One-roll document of a whole show of an unamplified hot spot of flash on a forehead toward a microphone held out flat in a hundred degree July. Work 8851.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

Ice-cooled two women in white sharing a parasol beside a woman in a tennis dress eating strawberries, 1976, helicopter photograph over the courts. Work 8834.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

A gliding speed skaters crouched on the line with the whole rink behind, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, home movie frame in Super 8. Work 8803.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

A portfolio of ten heads, a garish apprentice's head in flat sand reduced to a black plate and a pink, portrait printed on stiff white board. Work 8780.

A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.

A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.

A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8671.

Bauhaus photogram of a Guatemalan worry doll pouch within a ring of folding chairs, the 1980s, pencil registration marks left on. Work 8657.

A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film. Work 8631.

1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks. Work 8629.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.