The collection · DiffusionLab

Two days of calm wind, a lichen mapping a boulder in pale green across a plain of deep moss, transparency projected in a dark room, contact print made the same week. Work 6882.

The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws. Work 6841.

The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink. Work 6840.

A personally plated woman in gold heels on a polished forecourt under a sodium street lamp, January 1986, overhead frame from a parking deck. Work 6820.

1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor. Work 6817.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6791.

A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small. Work 6781.

Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set. Work 6755.

A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked. Work 6728.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball. Work 6627.

The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph. Work 6611.

The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.

A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6568.

The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar. Work 6529.

Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt. Work 6504.

16mm archive footage frame of a puddle full of coloured light, 35mm lens in a crowd, bulb flare in the frame. Work 6472.

A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night. Work 6429.

A tram passing a shuttered shop on an amusement pier, the last night of the fair, Gevacolor frame, north light in a bare room. Work 6388.

A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up. Work 6368.

An Ocean City floating ring with rain staining down the piers, 1951, sectional model photograph, neutral density for a long exposure. Work 6367.

Bruce Davidson style photograph of an underlit amusement pier at night, the first week of October, blurred ride in a slow exposure. Work 6311.

The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light. Work 6301.

A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative. Work 6297.

Everybody lies about the money: a railway signal in the rain in 1944, cinematic frame with deep focus, shot on Eastman Super-XX. Work 6270.

Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities. Work 6261.

An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black. Work 6257.

The year Sputnik went up, a planetarium dome at showtime inside a domed city, lit from below like a stage, overexposed sky behind a fin. Work 6252.

A placemat against a seafront railing, submersible floodlight photograph, light struck frame. Work 6233.

A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative. Work 6225.