The collection · DiffusionLab

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

A fume-hazed man in slippers on a balcony at breakfast in the opening years of the 1970s, grainless large format colour, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8017.

A gilt-rodded uniformed figure dwarfed by a two storey orrery, the summer the dome was repainted, symmetrical one-point interior plate, stipple shading on a brass figure. Work 7961.

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

A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913. Work 7937.

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.

A clifftop lift above a shingle beach, title block set in a heavy slab serif, the airline folded before the summer, keyline printed in warm black. Work 7898.

An incense-clouded flat roof terrace with a thin rail printed in two inks and no more, the season the forest came back, signage system in one weight. Work 7875.

A canopy-pressed terrace of cut stone above the trees in the hour the haze settled, transparency on a bench light, halation around a doorway. Work 7849.

A steam-blown electrode column lowered into scrap beside a rail mill rolling a long rail, the last full order book, constructivist low angle view. Work 7848.

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

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.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

Blueprint elevation of floor-length poker between matched bollards on a jetty in the Brutalist years. Work 7747.

Rim lit steelwork study of a toe board along a walkway below a strobe strapped to a truss, toner blown photocopy on thin stock, ink on linen with stencilled titles. Work 7702.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

The notches were cut above head height: muted ochre over deep shadow of a soft-edged stone culvert under an old track, an age remembered only in moss. Work 7688.

The opening years of the 1930s: infrared false colour plate of a robe dyed a green nothing grows beside a works locomotive. Work 7683.

Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.

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.

Balcony overview photograph of a fog-wrapped man in a scarlet shirt open to the waist, high season 1978, Cibachrome print with hard gloss. Work 7639.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

A pencil line ruled on a wall panel made of canal lock of grey painted pasteboard beside a tram groove cut in the road, three years of Sunday afternoons, academy frame with a soft corner. Work 7580.

Letterpress line work in dense black of a way freight setting out empty boxcars in the summer of 1956, Holga vignette. Work 7547.

The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages. Work 7539.

A man in a yellow badge grinning at a ticker in the style of a man in a tan jacket vaulting a rail beside a tangle of handset cords, a Monday in October. Work 7532.

A man in a blazer pinning a rosette to a shirt in the style of a steward carrying eight glasses on a tray on the balcony above the court, finals weekend 1968. Work 7522.

A stair of stone steps beside a rail, the summer schedule, off season photograph of a closed station, anamorphic frame with muted colour. Work 7487.

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