The collection · DiffusionLab

Flash lit macro of a specimen of an unadorned light canopy over a market floor on deck chocks in the rain in the slow decades. Work 8242.

The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.

Day-glo lettering over a night sky of a twin-cam wind machine lifting nine capes, a session in 1975, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8181.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative. Work 8128.

A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 8121.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

The years of the eight-year lifespan, a white corridor lit by ceiling strips under a green ring light, soft box over a steel bench, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 8055.

Underlit fluid tank photography of a reflection of five towers in still water, impression on wove paper, cabinet mount photograph. Work 8046.

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A road station of two rooms and a yard and an official in a ribbed grey overcoat near a trough cut from one block, the first crossing of the gorge, glare and dust lighting scheme. Work 7933.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 7917.

The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.

A trench with walls polished smooth, after the fourth attempt failed, three quarter view on an upright mass, edge softness left in the corners. Work 7904.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

Logarithmic paper with unequal spacing of a copper light along a whole ridge above a strip of metal matting, Y2K, single lamp exposure with a reflector. Work 7799.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 7692.

Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout. Work 7661.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

A shadow play against a curtain of falling water, the 8-bit years, structural engineer's defect photograph, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 7592.

Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 7574.

A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.

A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance. Work 7534.

A foil-wrapped beetle-green corridor with handrails on both sides, a decade lit by shop windows, blueprint plate in white on blue, studio strobe through a small reflector. Work 7504.