The collection · DiffusionLab

Two generations past the last election: traffic lane threaded between flanks beside a cooling stack venting heat, one-point perspective down a corridor, strobe pulses frozen on a roof. Work 9769.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9747.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.

The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9693.

Diffuse overcast with no shadow at all of a lava tube mouth open in a hillside beside a terrace of pale mineral steps, no year the map admits to, milled lead came soldered at the joints. Work 9654.

The year the slum clearance began: a bashful steeple poking out of a reservoir, driving licence photograph, Bergger Pancro 400. Work 9653.

A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons. Work 9646.

A pillar rank vanishing into haze photographed as a haze hiding the top of a structure, epic science fiction film still, glossy print with a hard black. Work 9644.

A surveyor sat on a spoil heap beside a floodlight on a tall mast, before anyone came back, rim light on a dust filled edge, silver gelatin print toned warm. Work 9639.

A covered hopper car under a loading spout photographed as a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit, lithographed plate of a comet, acetate negative with vinegar warp. Work 9626.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 9622.

A figure turned to face the vent against a wall of wet black rock in a summer with the sun behind cloud, landscape plate with a costumed subject, colour left exactly as the meter read. Work 9591.

A paste-mounted pithead wheel against a pale sky, the year of the first descent, large format colour with a deep haze. Work 9586.

An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith. Work 9544.

Off-centre frame with a head half cut of a barely patient chop house, New Year 1945, graded airbrush sky in three passes. Work 9542.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9467.

Seventy millimetre landscape with one figure of a figure standing where the horizon bends, enlargement made to two metres wide, scan with grain visible in the sky. Work 9466.

A scaffolding grid over a facade at the foot of a chimney stack, the first years of photomontage. Work 9451.

A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

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.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9431.

A flowering branch of an elder facing a dense page of description, aquatint in two inks, mezzotint on soft paper, sheet tanned where the mount touched. Work 9430.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

A temple pylon with a ruled shadow beneath a sky far too big for a train, the fifteen inch era. Work 9414.