The collection · DiffusionLab

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass. Work 9672.

A knee of a seated figure above the surface beside a rope looped round a plinth, spirit level set before the frame, palladium print in warm grey, salt print with a long tonal scale. Work 9598.

A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.

A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline. Work 9568.

Still from a resort advertising film of a man in aviators asleep with a book on his face and a man in a yellow shirt hailing a water taxi, the summer nobody went home. Work 9552.

Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench. Work 9547.

A nightjar crouched along a branch along the border of a lancet in around 1200, steel engraving in cold black. Work 9525.

An early leek trimmed and tied in a bundle beside a prize marrow on a bench with a label, the years of the penny packet, watercolour finished for the printer. Work 9506.

Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows. Work 9490.

A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash. Work 9484.

An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board. Work 9481.

Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone. Work 9475.

A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all. Work 9472.

Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands. Work 9469.

A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9462.

A weather-greyed oil-soaked planking grain ticket book on a counter, the dust years, pen and ink illustration of a grain town, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 9446.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 9439.

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A thorn crown with its shadow burned short, the season of the high sun, photoreal plate with visible heat, selenium toned print running cold. Work 9421.

The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.

An observing chair cranked to its top notch among globes on identical stands, the spring the clock was regulated, hand tinted mechanical illustration, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 9390.

Illustrated London News wood engraving of a gastric-brooding frog in the turn of the 1920s, lithograph printed from both stones in register. Work 9383.

16mm puppet play telecined to tape of a sequin trimmed felt hedgehog spiked with cut bristles, the last season of a puppet series, grain lifted by an old duplicate. Work 9374.

A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

Tilt shift over a tower crown of a pyramidal tower rising through the smog layer in the sixth decade of the company towns, composited miniature and live plate. Work 9323.

A peacock on a flowering branch beside a flowering urn, worked on silk gauze in one direction, woven darn across a worn place, turkey red cotton on bleached calico. Work 9295.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.