The collection · DiffusionLab

A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed. Work 7457.

A baggage lashed under a woven net opposite the sun on a bare crest, somebody had painted the trees. Work 7455.

The first ten minutes of daylight, a raffle ticket book printed off the crop against a sky in flat bands, rescreened from an already printed page, ghost image below the sun. Work 7454.

A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.

An eclipse seen through cloud, long exposure, diffuse ring. Work 7191.

An orrery diagram with too many planets, copperplate, hatching. Work 7183.

A sun-backed rotor blades blurred into a grey disc through a curtain of spray, the short season of clear mornings, the shadow arrived first, 70mm silhouette frame. Work 6944.

A pencil laid square across a log page at eye level with a sun sphere, 1878. Work 6896.

Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air. Work 6895.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

One week of identical sunrises: a flower-hung pair flying abreast at low level, rotor blur composition, pulled stock for a soft horizon. Work 6765.

A symbol marked orbit of a comet around the sun, late in the gas lit century, nebulosity in soft aquatint grain, lithographic stone print with a soft grain. Work 6760.

A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.

The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.

Lens flare across a river of a moth on a wheelhouse window along a reach with no far end, the last dry season, graduated tobacco filter. Work 6679.

A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery. Work 6654.

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

A geiger counter over bare ground in Del Norte County, headlights raking a field, Tri-X pushed two stops, low sun behind the subject. Work 6541.

Joel Meyerowitz style photograph of a still empty motel pool at dusk, the long summer of 1977, glare off the water. Work 6501.

A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky. Work 6490.

An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element. Work 6467.

The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky. Work 6390.

Publicity photograph for an airline of a tobacconist weighing loose leaf in a Moscow hotel dining room, the filter tip years, sun flare across the lens. Work 6359.

A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame. Work 6312.

A placemat against a seafront railing, submersible floodlight photograph, light struck frame. Work 6233.

Pen and ink illustration of a lettering painted on frosted glass under a street lamp in the fog, eight to one lighting ratio, haze in a hard backlight. Work 6104.

A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout. Work 6099.

A horse in a field at dawn, the last year of the 1970s, club logo in chrome lettering, high contrast black and white. Work 6045.

A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 5887.