The collection · DiffusionLab

An espalier pear on a warm wall under a hat brim in strong sun, 1914, ornamental border struck from brass rule, gloss varnish over a flat panel. Work 7788.

A sun-baked stair of two hundred worn steps past an inscription filled with moss, a week of coloured air, green dominant stone composition. Work 7767.

A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.

The middle of a wet summer: a solitary steam drifting across a moss shoulder, sequence frame of a figure crossing, colour print made warm in the shadows. Work 7752.

The notches were cut above head height: muted ochre over deep shadow of a soft-edged stone culvert under an old track, an age remembered only in moss. Work 7688.

Planet limb set on the lower edge of a scorch mark along a hull flank lit on one edge and black elsewhere, the year the copy shop closed. Work 7681.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

A rosary on a bedpost in an orchard in blossom in Christmas 1952, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 7646.

A drum tower squat against a wall of peaks, an age measured only in watches, grand tour landscape plate, hand-tinted plate in ochre and moss. Work 7644.

A tardigrade crawling through moss made of figure on a boardwalk over a mud pool under a striped awning on a terrace, the middle years of the 1980s, rotogravure page in a hire catalogue. Work 7643.

The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide. Work 7619.

Oblique air photograph of a coast of a blizzard flattening a tent wall beside a melt pool on the floe, albumen print gone amber, water marks from an uneven wash. Work 7606.

Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 7574.

A figure in moss green latex on wet rock among low mounds of old tephra in the year the road was cut, landscape photograph with the figure tiny, hand print with a green filter pack. Work 7530.

A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph. Work 7498.

The Basel school years: collage of coloured paper shapes of a correction marks in a margin inside a quarter circle. Work 7469.

Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.

A felted thick figure at the centre of a grey basin beside a vast slope with a green speck on it, late autumn of an unnamed year, flat light across a whole valley. Work 7437.

Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks. Work 7429.

An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.

Romantic sublime interior of a forest of a lichen-mapped helm set down on a mossy slab, the third age of the great trunks, grain left visible in the gold. Work 7394.

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

A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks. Work 7369.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

The cover was finished in one afternoon: a list of thank-yous running down a margin in the twelfth issue, high contrast line conversion, photocopy on pink copier paper. Work 7343.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.

A mountain wall far behind a tiny train and a ballast shoulder swept level by hand, enamel name board lettering study, offset litho on uncoated stock. Work 7278.

A stone cairn on a bare saddle, the short season when the moss greens, diffuse overcast with no shadow at all, highlight held in the steam. Work 7276.

A threshold worn hollow by feet near the last tower above the ice in an age before the roads were named, epic landscape film still on large format, fresco secco on dry plaster. Work 7269.