The collection · DiffusionLab

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 years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail. Work 6935.

A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 6902.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6887.

A flock lawned half height terrace at the back with a foil puddle at the kerb, the age of the exhibition layout, enamel colour under photofloods. Work 6881.

Poster reduced to circle and bar of a rooftop view straight down a street in the years of the new typography, folded in eight and opened flat. Work 6877.

The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws. Work 6841.

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 silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

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.

Photolithograph from a wash original of a calibrated kilim, the autumn of 1969, flash negative with a blown centre. Work 6719.

The road went on past the last gate: a grass growing in the joints of a road in the time of the great haulage, frontal record of a colossal gateway, 70mm negative with even fine grain. Work 6700.

Nobody came up the road for a week: sky atlas sheet of a cloudless truck hauling a mirror up a grade, 1922. Work 6682.

A weighbridge with nothing on it, overcast, wide angle, concrete. Work 6645.

The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter. Work 6629.

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

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 6626.

A cattle gathered at the far fence and a Futurama model of a highway city at the edge of a logging road, the World of Tomorrow, newsreel frame. Work 6625.

A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze. Work 6623.

Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object. Work 6617.

A tapering hospital ward block with balconies beside a multi storey car park facade, the late 1960s, infrared architectural photograph. Work 6614.

The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.

A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.

Saturated colour brochure photograph of a pavement cafe under an awning with fruit speared on a stick, the Concorde years. Work 6511.

Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt. Work 6504.

A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky. Work 6490.

Small town newspaper photograph of a hump in the water offshore on a two lane highway at night, 1995, print made on grade 4 paper. Work 6488.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 6483.

A stripped-down pursuit sedan with an exposed blower in the flare of a burning stack, the years after the water ran out, last water for two hundred miles, high-contrast colour photograph. Work 6470.

A family car packed for a holiday, kodachrome, driveway, 1968. Work 6447.