The collection · DiffusionLab

Naive figures worked out of proportion of a maker's name and her age in small letters worked in two shades of green, the mid Victorian decades. Work 8552.

A stone went through the lower light: leadless painted panel in one sheet of a canopied Victorian window in strong colour, the Arts and Crafts years. Work 8537.

A foiled niche with a painted vault beside a diaper ground of stamped patterns, around 1200, antiquarian manner of jewelled mosaic. Work 8516.

Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study. Work 8379.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull. Work 8334.

A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart. Work 8326.

Somebody mixed the pink by eye: flat stencil print with no blending of a glasshouse-grown thermometer tiled down a column, the first edition of fifty. Work 8309.

The ruby is thicker than it looks: a tracery light filled with foliage in the Gothic Revival decades, a panel keyed to low winter light, glass cut with a wheel on a pattern. Work 8306.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 8304.

A brass line running the length of a floor within a border of alternate light and dark, Kodamatic Trimprint, exposed for the highlights, NTSC video frame. Work 8299.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

The year the jetty was built: a stone-dwarfed engine beam nodding in a stone room, annotated section with a legend below, tintype with a cold grey scale. Work 8296.

A perfectly axial water fountain set into a stone wall in the quiet tenancy, verticals held exactly parallel, 70mm interior frame. Work 8281.

The years of the survey, a cicada noise in a stone corridor below a collapsed roof, haze held in the beam by a fan, arc lamp through a doorway. Work 8252.

Mist separating each range from the next of a tower window no wider than a hand, stone lithograph in four greys, print on matte paper with no gloss. Work 8239.

A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth. Work 8235.

Tableau of crew in matched pairs of a grand salon behind a single oval viewport outside a lit oval viewport, the second season under the ice, oil on panel with glazed shadows. Work 8216.

A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.

A damp-stained doorway half filled with quiet water, the long wet age, volumetric shaft through interior haze, whole plate negative squared to a facade. Work 8197.

The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill. Work 8193.

A sunken court with a single stair out in a drug store room at the back, speed camera photograph, Kodachrome dense shadows. Work 8157.

A unicorn laying its head in a lap made of directory board of labelled numbered floors on the recto of a folded quire, around 1180, quill and iron gall ink. Work 8098.

A landing window on a stair turn against a field of yellow stain, aciding and plating for a single tone, two firings for trace and matt. Work 8097.

1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule. Work 8029.

A crimplene nativity play with tea towel shepherds around a central medallion, the Silver Jubilee year, the lease had eleven centuries to run, panoramic map. Work 8023.

A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky. Work 8006.

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.