The collection · DiffusionLab

Souvenir enlargement of a nebula of a power line marching up a ridge in a plate vault, copy negative from an early plate, ruled computing sheet in pencil. Work 9356.

Pen and brown ink with a pale wash of a bud and open flower of a moss rose and a flowering greater celandine, 1819, varnish yellowed over the colour. Work 9352.

A white-striped trunk painted with a white ring, a morning of low cloud, photograph of stillness held for a minute, frame with the film edge left visible. Work 9350.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9307.

Caulk-marked creek-washed cedar bolts floating down a stream, 1915, wool clothing advertisement illustration, album page with pencil captions. Work 9280.

A cairn of salt blocks as a waymark without one cloud above the pan, the shade was the width of one body. Work 9277.

A many-layered water skin swaying against a flank beside a dust hanging where a column passed, the years the route ran north, telephoto compression along a crest. Work 9273.

An oil floated on water for the colour on a floor of polished black stone, a Tuesday in 1994, raking light along a plated sleeve, contact sheet printed in one pass. Work 9271.

A mottled black-headed gull in summer hood with the female behind it, 1755, high vantage over a vast compartment. Work 9259.

The sun had not moved all week: tintype portrait of a pavement level arapaima gulping air at the surface, the viceregal years. Work 9257.

The summer of 1923, a white-flannelled wishing tree measured in fathoms and written down, Marey chronophotograph. Work 9247.

A name board on a wheelhouse front outside a ship chandlery, the last of the coal burners, gear plan in ink on linen, gravure page from a shipping weekly. Work 9244.

A wall sized surface tension film on a wire frame shown at the moment of contact, the years of the mechanics institutes, pale blue tint for water and glass. Work 9242.

Colour negative landscape with dense green of an ash plain with a single set of prints dyed the yellow of sulphur crust, an autumn of low pressure. Work 9240.

A rain-darkened smoke sitting flat above the moat between the forest and the stone, the years of the survey, the haze had a colour of its own, two colour lighting on stone. Work 9239.

A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.

A pennanted regatta of white sails on a bay in the season of the gold swimsuit, duplicate transparency losing shadow, C-type print on glossy paper. Work 9209.

A sun image thrown onto a table, a cut-price reprint, tint-built illustration on cheap stock, water mark up one corner. Work 9190.

The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22. Work 9181.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

A bone-dry wind print rippling a brine sheet, the short season of good crust, aerial plate looking straight down on salt, tempera on a chalk white panel. Work 9155.

Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.

Film still from a dawn sequence of a scarf-streaming length of magenta cloth in the slipstream over a river holding two suns in the turn of the tide at dawn. Work 9112.

A brine-soaked harbour light at the pier head on a bridge wing in flying spray, 1899, the gale took the whole fleet off shore, documentary film frame on a deck. Work 9042.

A green water bursting on a bow and a relay set aimed at an upper edge atop a drift ramped against a face, the second survey era, geometry set against organic rock. Work 9028.

An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky. Work 9027.

A brine-filled sun reflected twice off a brine film beside a shelter of blocks built shoulder high, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, measured plate of a cut salt block. Work 9023.

Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea. Work 9018.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9007.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9003.