The collection · DiffusionLab

An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette. Work 7416.

A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.

A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks. Work 7369.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low. Work 7006.

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.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry. Work 6811.

A ring of bare rock round a structure making the cliff behind it look small, the patient centuries, long lens across two miles of haze, medium format film in flat haze. Work 6796.

Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner. Work 6736.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

A white-skied gravel apron at the foot of a cliff, 1827, worn stone giving a pale bird. Work 6713.

The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light. Work 6688.

A tide dropping a trawler in a berth under a lighthouse on a pier, orthochromatic plate in sea haze, thin underexposed negative, litho poster in flat greys. Work 6665.

The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement. Work 6659.

A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement. Work 6620.

Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print. Work 6619.

New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s. Work 6578.

A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 6508.

The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide. Work 6495.

An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element. Work 6467.

A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky. Work 6465.

2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print. Work 6454.

House magazine feature photograph of a Viking longship landing in the spring of 1963, Ansco Printon print. Work 6398.

1980, an overcast seafront weather forecast board halfway into the sea, colour snapshot. Work 6356.

A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph. Work 6279.

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

A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt. Work 6238.