The collection · DiffusionLab

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet. Work 9662.

The turn of the tide at dawn, a palm-lined group waiting at the edge of a clearing rimmed in orange along one edge, horizon high with water below. Work 9658.

Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.

Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.

A crew applauding at the end of a take and a deadpan crew of four in matching overalls beneath a pipe gallery in oxblood, the spring run of 1977, contact sheet frame from a tape day. Work 9650.

Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black. Work 9649.

Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing. Work 9641.

A kid-gloved man in a silk scarf with a phone in a case beside an apostle holding a closed book, around 1320, mirrored composition in wet tarmac. Work 9630.

A haze-layered lean to roofed with banana leaf, the last hours of daylight, underlit face composition, archival positive with dense greens. Work 9629.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9628.

A clay woman in a poster paint apron with grease where a hand held it, the school term of 1965, animation cycle repeated four times, off air recording with a soft picture. Work 9627.

A suited traveller against a wall of pure cyan at the edge of a widening white bar, the years without a horizon. Work 9620.

The first season of the mast, a steward in a short white jacket in front of twelve men in matching tunics, letterpress with a tissue overlay, limelight aimed into a large space. Work 9615.

A bandsman's head in hot red beside a fairground booth front in a session in 1975, portrait in chrome yellow and violet, print taped to a studio wall. Work 9614.

Available light reportage frame of a crate of mismatched connectors and a wrist held out for a reader, the age when signage outlived the state, black pro-mist over neon. Work 9611.

A salt-stiffened indigo-dyed signboard bleached past reading, the middle of a hundred year drought, architectural scale applied to a person, acrylic on a primed panel. Work 9608.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 9607.

The wedge years, a man in a leather blouson beside a turbo badge beside a doorman at a brass rail, print with the corner clipped for a file, monochrome print on glossy fibre paper. Work 9605.

A bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still. Work 9594.

A figure turned to face the vent against a wall of wet black rock in a summer with the sun behind cloud, landscape plate with a costumed subject, colour left exactly as the meter read. Work 9591.

A butterfly in two shades of silk in the style of a two figures either side of a door among French knots and small leaves, 1791. Work 9583.

The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.

A lacrosse stick, poster style label with three flats, the one who did not stay, Kodak Panatomic-X 32. Work 9577.

The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.

A signalman holding out a staff, railway poster in flat colour, the pilot dropped a wheel that morning, faded colour print on resin paper. Work 9573.

A figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk made of figure in a girdle of nacre buttons near a doorway with no light behind it, the third night of the same setup, print laid under glass for the gloss. Work 9560.

A man in a striped blazer carrying two toboggans outside the lift house door in 1990, hard flash with a polished reflector. Work 9557.

Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench. Work 9547.

An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith. Work 9544.