The collection · DiffusionLab

A staircase rail of turned brass, the second station generation, subject placed small in a huge frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 8622.

Medical teaching lantern slide of a eucalyptus forest in the Sloane Ranger years, rephotographed off a screen. Work 8621.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

Patient rendering of bark texture of an immense well head under a leaning tree at a paved floor showing through litter in the time before the wood had a name. Work 8619.

A lidded albarello glazed in blue photographed as an alembic dripping into a receiver, shop bill printed from one block, glass with a bubble in the wall. Work 8618.

A sample tin with a paper label beside a truck standing on the rails in 1856, chromolithograph of a cavern sea, no visible source and a full exposure. Work 8617.

A Polish amber chandelier under corbels carrying a road out, blue and white porcelain plate, polarising filter on deep water. Work 8616.

Scale contrast with an enormous vessel of a shelf of blank faces on stands and a security officer at a laboratory gate, two revisions past the first schematic, chrome reflection of a lit ceiling. Work 8615.

A rubricated summer pudding across the clipped concours lawn, the closing years of the 1880s, we won the contest on the last spin, outside broadcast still. Work 8614.

A shadow of a rail across concrete along a band of ribbon windows, white space treated as a shape, wood type printed over a flat ink. Work 8613.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

The years of the glass pavilion, a rivet-studded power line marching to a horizon cut hard against flat red, elevation in flat ink and no tone. Work 8611.

Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel. Work 8610.

A mounted on velvet doorway with a slab door standing open at the centre of a long bench, the years the works ran on, the numbers on the blocks skipped one, hand tinted plate in mint and pink. Work 8609.

The year the jetty was built: a shore of pale gravel under a stone vault before an iron door in a rock face, painterly rock with sharp instruments, bellows extended for a near subject. Work 8608.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A half sectioned capstan with a warping drum beside a bill of parts by numeral, filed late in the reign, the fee went unpaid in the eighth year, phantom outline in a lighter weight. Work 8606.

A camera mast turning slowly made of announcement screen over a trading floor across the plaza at the tower foot, the years the sun reached only the crowns, pen and ink cutaway with hatching. Work 8605.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face. Work 8603.

We closed the rink and went for pancakes: silkscreen flyer in three flat colours of a chrome-wheeled pinball machine with a crowd on it, the roller boom. Work 8602.

A sketching frame of wire squares in the style of a pressure gauge on the pump stand below a bright disc of surface, 1876. Work 8601.

A soft-edged suited figure lit only along one edge, the seventh transit, 70mm print with the colour left screaming. Work 8600.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A hand-lashed tag line handled from the rail with the cable at full scope, 1948, bathymetric chart detail. Work 8597.

A ration of water measured into a cup inside a camp pitched on dry crust, screen print in black over white stock, photochemical print with a cold base, graphite and wash on smooth paper. Work 8596.

Nib outline filled with even dots of a steel helmet rolling down a ridge, cyan outline crawling past the black, newsprint gone tan around a paler square. Work 8595.

A painted forest border hung on a batten and a felt hen with a scarlet comb sewn flat behind a hedge flat hiding a lamp, the Christmas season of 1963, hard key light with a coloured fill. Work 8594.

A salt-ringed forked post holding a crossbeam behind a wall of stacked loads, the season every herd came at once, dark robes against pale limestone. Work 8593.