The collection · DiffusionLab

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

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.

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.

Process red and cyan figure study of a dentist's lamp swung down in the year the dots got bigger, screenprint on stiff white board. Work 8277.

A russet rail-sided grove gate with a wrought iron arch, 1927, idealised grove landscape plate, wood grain pressed into the paper. Work 8271.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.

A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.

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 first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour. Work 8195.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

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 malleus incus and stapes at scale made of bladder distended and in section on a tinted ground of pale buff, the year the atlas was reprinted, paper laid down on linen for teaching. Work 8131.

Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative. Work 8128.

A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.

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.

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

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 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 relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.

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.

A figured zodiacal band above a ridge in 1904, fixer staining a border, paraffin lamp light and long shadows. Work 7892.

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.