The collection · DiffusionLab

Stillness photographed as ceremony of a crew of four on a terraced step and a comet tail, the season of the standing watch, size bloomed across the sky. Work 7453.

The corridor ended where it began: a carved face four metres across in the second dry season, film still from a temple sequence, print with highlights held down. Work 7450.

Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.

The week of the annual winding, a zodiac ring engraved in even degrees between two identical staircases, halftone screen from a trade circular, hand coloured engraving in pink wash. Work 7382.

A wall sized funicular carriage stepped like a staircase with the circuit closed, 1820, exaggerated scale to make an effect plain. Work 7339.

Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.

A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow. Work 7201.

The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair. Work 7198.

A frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light. Work 7118.

The years the towers stood empty: a canopy pressing against a stone wall among fallen blocks, haze separated tower planes, neutral density in a hot courtyard. Work 7032.

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.

An overbearing concrete stair cut a hundred metres up a cliff standing where the rock was removed, after the outposts were joined, orthographic plate with no perspective. Work 6973.

A moss line just above the water mark along a stylobate step run under water, one column stands where none was built. Work 6939.

Two attendants carrying a rolled white mat and a figure descending a ladder of lit rungs behind a hatch of smoked glass, the second century of the passage, deep focus anamorphic frame. Work 6917.

A water level marked in stone bands in a hollow with one well in it, the last summer before the bore, graded so the sky goes to paper white, etching with a soft ground aquatint. Work 6853.

Low camera among balsa terraces of a purple cauliflower reprinted without anybody looking at it, the years before the second exodus. Work 6849.

A hill climb car sliding on loose gravel on the steps of the orangery in high summer of 1963, saturated dye set in the reds. Work 6845.

The year the line was relaid, an ochre-canvassed gate of white bars across a path built to a fifteen inch gauge, haze lit interior exposure. Work 6801.

A deer fence of split stakes in the style of a cut stair with a brass handrail pin near an inscription filled with moss, the first clearing. Work 6777.

An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.

The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.

Survey frame with the horizon level of a stair landing with one bulb burning and a tower of raw concrete on a rock spur, the last of the great pours, acrylic on a concrete-toned ground. Work 6727.

An implacable settlement terraced into a canyon wall, the age of the deep shelters, infrared plate with a black sky. Work 6696.

A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light. Work 6668.

Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching. Work 6639.

Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall. Work 6601.

A temple gate at the top of steps, diazo print, the competition was won and shelved, sun flare across the lens. Work 6599.

The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.

A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page. Work 6546.

Lithographed travel poster of a palm fringed propliner parked at a palm fringed field on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1972. Work 6520.