The collection · DiffusionLab

Lifestyle feature on room service of a slippered woman putting a diamond in the soap dish, out of season and half the price, print mounted on board for a client. Work 7511.

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 7428.

The season every herd came at once: press photograph of a recovery of a radio room with a key and headphones at a darkroom sink at sea. Work 7407.

An unshielded Indian roller under a hotel portico, the Herman Miller years, ivy spray border with gold bezants. Work 7380.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

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.

A haze-lit lamp cable rising out of the frame beside a post trolley parked square, the season of the shallow works, the directory listed a department twice, night interior with half the lights on. Work 7284.

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 figure ringed by six shifting discs inside a tank of still shallow water, the year the lamps were replaced, full figure small inside a dark frame, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 7280.

Hotel monogram ornament study of a reception desk flanked by two brass lamps and a valley of pines below a hotel front, the season after the staff came back, reflection doubled in bevelled glass. Work 7270.

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 barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light. Work 7153.

Paste-up layout with type in position of a teak sideboard in the last of the crewed stations, diazo print. Work 7136.

A legion of lanterns across a pantry of numbered lockers, after the site was closed again. Work 7133.

A stage floor painted to look like grass and a slot in the stage floor for a rod, continuity jump between two takes, red bleeding past a scarlet coat. Work 7112.

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 movement chart taped to a lamp stand over standing water on a floor, the year the masks were issued, wire removal done badly in the optical, soundtrack hiss on a reel end. Work 7099.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

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

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.

The key came back on the wrong hook: baths of white tile in a row in the months nobody travelled by day, wide angle interior with true verticals, registration soft on the far ridge. Work 6931.

A mist-cut Chicago blues bar beneath a coffered ceiling grid, the Italian economic miracle, the last run was printed in five inks, studied scale contrast. Work 6923.

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 lamp hut with numbered hooks at a platform two bricks high, ink illustration on linen tracing, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, carbon print with a heavy shadow. Work 6879.

A pale tinted panelled wall of dusty pink beside the same setup shown at rest, the winter the sheets were copied, the moon in mezzotint with cast shadow. Work 6858.

A furniture catalogue sofa with a cyan edge in the style of a lighter fuel tin with a doubled flame beside a slipped register mark, the spring sale season. Work 6819.

The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows. Work 6744.