The collection · DiffusionLab

A smudge-smoked wave tank with a ripple pattern, the year before the electron was named, blue holding while the yellow went. Work 6875.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

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.

The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.

Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation. Work 6671.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a test weight kettle on a stand in 1916, colour slide from a farm album, dust on the negative in the enlarger. Work 6646.

A caged balcony stacked with crates and a light well with dripping pipes on a wet street at street level, the second century of the smog, studio model photograph. Work 6606.

A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.

Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped. Work 6456.

The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky. Work 6390.

A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window. Work 6213.

A steam grate breathing into the street under scaffolding left up for years in some November a long way from now, strong edge light in rain. Work 6070.

The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower. Work 5972.

A sleepless manhole venting white steam at the bottom of a light well, the first winter of the curfew, neo-noir film still. Work 5809.

A retouched incense burner in the spring of 1964, ORWO UT20, Diafine two bath development. Work 5772.

High-contrast colour photograph of a salt-crusted pursuit sedan with an exposed blower beside a capped dry bore in the end of the age of engines. Work 5705.

A silkie chicken and a power station cooling tower in 1969 at a drive-in, Adoration of the Magi panel. Work 5641.

Giorgione pastoral of a haboob in a Mauritian sugar mill, Fernand Leger canvas, the armistice, amber monochrome. Work 5446.

A breton flat-topped exploded diagram of a household object, microscopy illustration, the last day of term, tea stain. Work 5409.

A lincoln green steam-powered level crossing with no railway, Afewerk Tekle canvas, where lost gloves go, hair light. Work 5313.

A pollen storm over a pine forest made of shipwreck survivor on a desert island, wintry, x-ray, pinhole. Work 5255.

An unloved ferry cancelled by fog in a Hong Kong dim sum hall, boro textile, tallow candle, museum quality. Work 5122.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, Vasily Surikov canvas, the warm side of the bed, confetti in the light. Work 5101.

A thunderhead over a wheat field in the style of a kappa, aircraft hangar light. Work 5054.

Cinematic photo of steam punk giant robot in the jungle, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 5001.

A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze. Work 4789.

A haar rolling in off the sea, (humorous illustration, hyperrealistic. Work 4779.

An animatronic scuffed dust storm arriving at a town, star fort plan, the cult of the good scissors, torch under the chin. Work 4646.

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 4549.

See appendix: a kitchen full of fog in the eye of a storm, Olan Mills portrait. Work 4539.