The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

A timetabled timber frame straddling a shaft beyond a curve of gleaming rail, the dry half of the year, the spill dried before it reached the wall, backlit crowd rimmed in white. Work 8727.

The middle of the decade, a loud-printed man in a peach shirt gripping a boat rail with the sky gone tangerine, neon sign lighting a face in magenta. Work 8714.

Muted ochre against near black of a catchment terrace angled to a cistern between a stair and a sheer drop, architectural transparency on daylight film, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 8709.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 8707.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner. Work 8690.

An algae bloom seen from space with the gate chained shut, the summer of 1914, video still from a worn tape, photostat. Work 8658.

A smoke-veiled speaker flown from a chain hoist above the deck on a top rail, two days before the doors opened, the frame outlasted the building, sleeve front with a steel frame photograph. Work 8643.

A follow spot picking out a soloist beside a chrome staircase, export catalogue illustration, video smear off a chrome stair. Work 8627.

A staircase rail of turned brass, the second station generation, subject placed small in a huge frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 8622.

Gold haze thick enough to hide the far wood of a sap-streaked bell hung from a beam between trees among ferns breaking through carved steps in an age before the wood was measured. Work 8585.

A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail. Work 8575.

The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.

Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page. Work 8533.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

Bird's eye photograph of a stair of a marshaller lit from one side in orange aligned to a baseline grid, letterpress with a visible bite, star filter on a low sun. Work 8461.

A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition. Work 8450.

A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.

Two men in pastel jackets on a marina walkway with the jacket over one shoulder, peak season for white linen, panning frame of a moving hull, glossy C-type print on resin paper. Work 8410.

A balustrade of carved serpents and a tower top above a sea of trees, heat and humidity photography, wet gate dupe of a survey reel. Work 8384.

After the site was left open: figure at a fraction of a percent of frame of a stair with no building over it after the haze has hidden the top. Work 8370.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

Long lens compression up a track of a sleeper line stepped up a hillside climbing into ochre haze, the season after the closure. Work 8293.

Modeller's prototype reference photograph of a humping engine at the top of the hump at a shed office door, colour print gone magenta, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 8208.

A trackside hut of mint boards, flat even light with no sun, the timetable ran on two trains a day, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 8200.

A sunken court with a single stair out in a drug store room at the back, speed camera photograph, Kodachrome dense shadows. Work 8157.

A carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky. Work 8120.

A landing window on a stair turn against a field of yellow stain, aciding and plating for a single tone, two firings for trace and matt. Work 8097.

An unbothered woman having her shoulder blotted by a friend, high season, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8069.