The collection · DiffusionLab

Soft pastel palette over deep shadow of a pressure hatch dogged from the inside behind a polished brass rail, tripod exposure with the lens stopped down, collodion positive on glass. Work 8991.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8988.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.

A roof beams burned through and fallen in near a votive niche of small figures, a season when no courier came. Work 8943.

A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.

Duotone photograph with flat type of a plywood-built glass curtain wall at a corner, the Basel school years, collotype with a soft continuous tone. Work 8904.

The black plate was left in a cupboard: a robot octopus repairing a submarine in the first winter of the 1940s, grey scale test exposure, cine frame enlarged past its grain. Work 8879.

A fluorescent-lit audience lit from behind only, the big bang year, cut and paste flyer artwork, stencil sprayed through thin steel. Work 8843.

Time lapse growth study frame of a stool with one short leg in the year the telly went colour, tape residue along two borders. Work 8835.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

A tube rack of eighty identical mouths in the style of a ruling pen wiped on a cloth up a ladder to the high pigeonholes, the winter the sheets were copied. Work 8832.

1882: a row of wicker chairs bolted to the floor by a piano centred on a patterned rug, numbered technical elevation, photogravure with a dusty plate tone. Work 8829.

A rebus of a name in a border, Arts and Crafts glazing in clear lights, it came out of a house being pulled down, lead came stopped with oily cement. Work 8820.

Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.

Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.

A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.

Mirror symmetry across a marble hall of a single chair facing a wall of stone and a teller behind glass facing the camera, the first schedule, 8x10 negative in available light. Work 8774.

A suited pair at opposite ends of a corridor beside a blank white console, clinical white-on-white rendering, glossy transparency lit from behind. Work 8764.

An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.

The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.

A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

A lean to roofed with banana leaf beside a green shuttered window in the last hours of daylight, colour graded warm and heavy, half-tone on a heavy art paper. Work 8734.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 8688.

Main titles over a plaster ridge of a hard lit hardboard floor drilled in a grid, the second unit schedule of 1972, exposure step between two frames. Work 8677.

Corporate annual review frame of a shaft of amber light falling on a stone floor in the quiet tenancy, mixed daylight and tungsten cast. Work 8670.