The collection · DiffusionLab

Test footage of a walk cycle of a lamp warmed plasticine doctor with a wire stethoscope, a wet Tuesday in 1966, lab scratch across a bright area. Work 8199.

The last summer before the road, a pink-marbled kitchen pass hung with copper pans stencilled with a stores number, haze filled lobby held perfectly level. Work 8190.

A hall of cabinets vanishing into haze, the week of the inspection, hand tinted plate in mint and pink, colour negative printed slightly cool. Work 8146.

Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments. Work 8133.

A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years. Work 8108.

The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.

Neon sign design sketch of a man in a mirrored waistcoat clapping overhead, motion blur under a hard flash, HP5 developed hot. Work 8062.

Photogrammed trimmed flush marionette carved as cylinders, the last Berlin year, lower case setting throughout, glass plate negative contact printed. Work 8032.

A washbasin that folds into a wall in the style of a piano stool centred on a patterned rug beside a navigation table under a lamp, the year the hull was silvered. Work 8018.

A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph. Work 7998.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.

A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

The spring of 1952: a cedar-shadowed Iznik tile, teal shadow under a viaduct arch, minilab balance gone warm. Work 7842.

An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge. Work 7812.

Logarithmic paper with unequal spacing of a copper light along a whole ridge above a strip of metal matting, Y2K, single lamp exposure with a reflector. Work 7799.

An espalier pear on a warm wall under a hat brim in strong sun, 1914, ornamental border struck from brass rule, gloss varnish over a flat panel. Work 7788.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper. Work 7699.

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.

Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.

A rock hammer beside a basalt pillow behind a bank of instrument lamps in 1947, bottom camera exposure, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 7630.

The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected. Work 7576.

A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.

A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance. Work 7534.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

The year of the first descent: a coal-smelling saloon ceiling coffered in mahogany, composed like a museum diorama, limelight on a large interior. Work 7520.