The collection · DiffusionLab

A hospital corridor at night in an empty dance hall, 1977, cinema verite frame, shallow focus on a long lens. Work 6089.

My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change. Work 6087.

A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted. Work 6077.

A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968. Work 6076.

Press photograph of an opening of a scaffolded access deck along a housing block, 1928, contact print from a large negative. Work 6072.

A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame. Work 6071.

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.

A terrazzo floored stylised eagle over a post office door, 1940, duotone in black and gold. Work 6065.

An apartment lobby with a terrazzo compass on the Bund at dusk, pencil and wash study, large format with a shift lens. Work 6057.

A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 6055.

A newsstand with a curved chrome hood in a Havana stair hall in 1925, worm's eye view from the pavement. Work 6044.

A suntanned hotel pool seen from a balcony, the years after the wells were capped, resort site plan illustration, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows. Work 6043.

The lieutenant wants you downtown: architectural section of a comfortably off alexandrite, the Mexican Miracle. Work 6040.

A reflecting pool before a portico made of measured elevation on a sheet in a top lit reading room, the late 1950s, available light in a stairwell. Work 6033.

A zigzagged lobby directory in gilt letters at a petrol station of white tile, 1936, Art Deco poster in flat colour. Work 6031.

A Mauresque grille over a stair window on a liner leaving port, 1926, pochoir print, varnished poster stock. Work 6030.

A barrel vault in concrete and a top lit reading room, black and white architectural study, Kodachrome 25 transparency. Work 6029.

The late 1940s, a starburst patterned formwork stripped from a column under a folded plate roof, concrete texture study. Work 6022.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6020.

Studio portrait in soft focus of a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake across a stainless counter, the winter of 1933, gold leaf on a printed border. Work 6019.

A stoical sanatorium staircase down to the sea, the wakes weeks, flying spot scanner transfer. Work 6018.

A curtain wall of anodised aluminium behind a brise soleil, the plan was for six of these. Work 6017.

Room 14: 110 format print of a chlorine-bleached rectangular pool seen from a balcony, the last week of August. Work 6014.

A deep overhang shading a verandah and a site plan with contour lines across a Soviet microdistrict, the year before demolition, deadpan documentary photograph. Work 6013.

Calcomp plotter output of a magenta cast observatory on Ocean Drive in the closing years of the 1950s. Work 6007.

Shift lens architectural study of a crematorium with a slender chimney with balconies stepping back, the mid 1970s. Work 6006.

An atrium under a glazed roof under a monsoon sky, the reconstruction years, demolition record photograph, matte print with no gloss. Work 6001.

A circus of townhouses, trade directory plate, the light went before the last setup, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 6000.

Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street. Work 5999.

A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust. Work 5995.