The collection · DiffusionLab

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 8688.

A Polish amber chandelier under corbels carrying a road out, blue and white porcelain plate, polarising filter on deep water. Work 8616.

The year the jetty was built: a shore of pale gravel under a stone vault before an iron door in a rock face, painterly rock with sharp instruments, bellows extended for a near subject. Work 8608.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp. Work 8590.

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 spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885. Work 8507.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

The spring the globes arrived, a globe varnish gone faintly amber amid ranging rods in a stack, Kodachrome with dusty pink plaster, copperplate engraving on damp pressed paper. Work 8476.

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

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.

Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.

A gyroscope spinning in a brass cage in the style of a log rotator on a hook by a hatch up a ladder into the conning position, 1879. Work 8420.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8399.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull. Work 8334.

A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open. Work 8308.

A concierge centred behind a pink marble desk photographed as a brass frame screwed beside a door, overhead plate of a laid table, single lamp raking across marble. Work 8307.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

An armatured stag with brass antlers and foam offcuts in a cardboard box, rear projection plate behind a moving beast, raked light showing every seam. Work 8290.

Process red and cyan figure study of a dentist's lamp swung down in the year the dots got bigger, screenprint on stiff white board. Work 8277.

A russet rail-sided grove gate with a wrought iron arch, 1927, idealised grove landscape plate, wood grain pressed into the paper. Work 8271.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.

A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.

An improvised festoon lighting along a wet wall in a winter deep in the coming century, photochemical print with a cyan bias, colour transparency with pastel walls. Work 8210.

A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.