The collection · DiffusionLab

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

The Courrèges years, a glassy-eyed map sheet weighted with two stones in a sack dress that hides the waist, Tunbridge ware mosaic. Work 8506.

Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.

Deadpan frontal framing of a beam of sun standing in smoke at the treeline in coloured haze, 70mm print graded green, condensation on the front element. Work 8418.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.

Advertising still for a resort leaflet of a woman in a lemon dress leaning on a pink wall and a woman in a pink visor serving at a net, the season of the open hull. Work 8313.

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 vine-crowned succotash toward a flyer pasted upside down, the space age fashion years, only the initials, silk shading embroidery. Work 8267.

A battery stall with terminals bare, a winter far down the next century, dense foreground occlusion, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 8254.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 8132.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8130.

Glass shot reference photograph of a soldier's face in flat olive against a shutter of mint boards, the 1960s, slide taped and numbered. Work 8112.

A bassist with a thumb on the low string, poster paint illustration in flat colour, she picked the gowns herself, faded Ektacolor gone warm. Work 8111.

A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 8096.

A sweat running down a shaved head beside a stacked amplifier, a Tuesday in 1994, monochrome with the greys squeezed out, flat ink pulled through a fine mesh. Work 8083.

An unbothered woman having her shoulder blotted by a friend, high season, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8069.

Double-printed page slightly out of register of a face pressed to the copier glass and a contact sheet copied at wrong contrast, the winter of cheap copies, thin newsprint copied and folded. Work 8039.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 8037.

A stamped works mark on a billet end made of micrograph of a grain boundary beside a cooling bed of red bars, the summer of the big heat, videotape frame with head bars. Work 8007.

The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film. Work 7999.

An attendant lacing a rental boot, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, flash-lit rink photograph, Fujicolor 400 with mixed light. Work 7993.

A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print. Work 7947.

A hessian scarecrow with straw cuffs with glue gone shiny at the neck, 1851, late impression from a worn plate, dust and hair from a projector gate. Work 7941.

Half past eleven on a school night: a cobbled last frame of a roll, darkroom print dodged nowhere at all, carte de visite studio portrait. Work 7928.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7924.

The seventh transit: a flat-coloured face half magenta and half cyan, field of colour with one hard edge, wide gauge print with an open gate. Work 7912.