The collection · DiffusionLab

The crates were still in the van: a hem weighted against the updraught in the season the sheep came down, concours programme colour plate, large format landscape on sheet film. Work 7490.

A paint-chalked lander leaving for a planet below under a white sun with nothing to soften, the age of vacuum work, hard vacuum science fiction film still. Work 7443.

An inspector with a clipboard held level made of guard walking beside a moving train under a dragline boom, an unrecorded season, 65mm frame with a huge sky. Work 7359.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.

A ripple-floored figure holding a black square of glass within a trench cut dead straight, the first survey season, the stone face was left where it lay, unblinking exterior composition. Work 7319.

A tall-headed procession seen from a first floor window by a gas lamp over a loom, a cold morning with no wind, frontal composition with the line centred. Work 7297.

A reckless reporter with a flashbulb and a fedora in a wet March in 1951, flat proof before the black went down, creased spine with white breaks. Work 7292.

Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper. Work 7251.

A thumb-worn atlas and axis articulated, the Carnaby Street years, veiling glare across the shadow side. Work 7199.

Floodlit night excavation rendering of a cool-shadowed delegation in a row before a black slab, the first survey season, wide gauge frame scanned at full width. Work 7194.

The season finale, an export-stamped rehearsal run with the house lights up with the gum still shining, opening titles in chrome lettering. Work 7193.

The age of the wedge and the sled: an inspection gallery under a road deck along an avenue of seated figures, heavy chiaroscuro under a gate vault, ink and wash over a scribed underlay. Work 7171.

Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper. Work 7164.

Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920. Work 7048.

An age measured in miles of paving, a kerb-worn road vanishing into a pale wall of mist larger than anything else in the valley, dust-lit interior of a stone passage. Work 7004.

The third generation of shareholders: a trading floor with every terminal lit within a stair core without windows, top light in a vast interior, two second exposure at a window. Work 6975.

Deep in the century of the pyramid: pre-visualisation frame of a low sun mirrored down a canyon of towers under bunting of cut felt triangles. Work 6962.

A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior. Work 6960.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6936.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

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 personally plated woman in gold heels on a polished forecourt under a sodium street lamp, January 1986, overhead frame from a parking deck. Work 6820.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 6807.

Poster with a very low horizon of a pyramid flattened against a gold sky through a tunnel mouth in rock, a tear repaired from behind, paper showing through the blue. Work 6805.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 6804.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set. Work 6755.

1866, a far-walled tent pitched on a pale shore with its reflection completing the shape, scale given by a single small coat. Work 6673.

An airport departures board with impossible destinations, long exposure. Work 6656.

A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball. Work 6627.