The collection · DiffusionLab

A dust-free blower duct under a dome floor under a pointer arrow of light, 1923, filmstrip frame for a lecture. Work 7488.

Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.

A tank hall with twelve columns lit, instructional manual illustration, the model was not on the standard list, deep black against a white wall. Work 7470.

A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 7464.

A bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame. Work 7461.

Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.

A dust and vapour hanging in a light shaft under a bar of light on the water, an age of one drip and no other sound. Work 7332.

A tied crown of seakale in a pot, just after the war, colour proof with the register marks, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 7330.

Robot choir photographed as mamuthones, sodium coloured light still, medium format colour with deep saturation. Work 7324.

The Three Kingdoms period, a caving beside a magenta warning lamp, contact print of a whole roll, fifty copies dubbed over one weekend. Work 7281.

A tumbling hangar deck with a ship inside, the age of hard shadow, scan with the negative edge included. Work 7238.

Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.

A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow. Work 7201.

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 summer of the long mooring: a beam-lit line of eight stewards facing the lens, dead centre one-point interior exposure, rotogravure in a single brown ink. Work 7181.

A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 7157.

A wind-filled light releaded in the wrong order in the Quiet Revolution, Agfacolor CN17, print with the marble dodged down. Work 7121.

A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 7107.

A directional arrow on a wall inside a darkroom's red light, the last Berlin year. Work 7073.

1887: a valet sprinting past a row of headlamps against a wall of smoked glass, candid arrival frame with flash, whiteprint with sepia lines on cream. Work 7022.

A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving. Work 7021.

A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore. Work 7014.

A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.

Isometric tower schematic of a crowd at the tower foot looking up in the fourth quarter of the long expansion, aircraft lights as short trails. Work 6925.

A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light. Work 6907.

A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure. Work 6906.

A tunnel mouth of painted plaster with a pin through its base, the week before the club show, lithograph in three stone greys, tungsten balanced colour film. Work 6833.

A rubber-streaked aperture opening in a blank surface, the year the site was opened, rendered with high clinical detail, print laid under glass for the gloss. Work 6829.