The collection · DiffusionLab

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 7894.

A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.

1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.

Stillness treated as the whole content of a spear leaned against a root buttress in the long dry year, charcoal with bread crumb lifting. Work 7851.

A late sun striking one column only and a fresco fragment above the water line, boat placed small for scale between columns, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 7826.

A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 7818.

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin. Work 7768.

Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987. Work 7757.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7741.

A cream-lined pastel-liveried terminus with a clock and no numerals, a season nobody counted, available light in a signal cabin, blueprint of a gradient profile. Work 7730.

1910, a hank reeled off a swift up a harbour on a rising tide, photogravure in a survey volume, sheet film exposed on a rolling deck. Work 7627.

A blood-speckled launch of a trawler down a slip before the market opens, 1913, marine painting in oils. Work 7597.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7585.

1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7558.

1870, a uniformed aerial reel hanging under the hull with every chair turned the same way, chromolithographic interior view. Work 7536.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 7482.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.

Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer. Work 7301.

A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away. Work 7300.

The era of balsa and enamel: a tissue glazed canal barge of balsa with a tin funnel, stop motion of a tin bus moving, colour cast towards amber. Work 7268.

Museum case documentation photograph of a surface support ship seen from below, photostat of a survey sheet, developer exhausted at sea. Work 7218.

Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper. Work 7164.

A biosphere dome made of beluga blowing bubble rings by the only lit window on a face, the winter of 1968, hand tinted engraving in pale washes. Work 7109.

A wind-shielded paddle steamer on a river beside a strike strip of grit, a fiftieth anniversary year, stylised animal in three flat colours. Work 7046.

A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 7028.

A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low. Work 7006.