The collection · DiffusionLab

A mountain road in autumn, kodachrome, saturated, low sun. Work 6392.

A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century. Work 6377.

Somebody cut it down to fit: a copper wash boiler in the Carnation Revolution, hand painted bus livery, water spots on the emulsion. Work 6371.

1941: a camera pointed at an empty room over a model highway city, model shot with wires, taped to the wall with masking tape. Work 6339.

A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind. Work 6317.

William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows. Work 6313.

Open all night: tonal value study of a nervy squad car at the kerb, 1956. Work 6303.

A rank of striped cabins at Rimini, the late 1920s, architectural photograph of a facade, flash falloff into a dark room. Work 6284.

A cinema with three people in it on a shuttered terrace, the spring of 1968. Work 6276.

Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities. Work 6261.

A man made of doors on a road that runs straight to the sky, everybody else is looking left. Work 6256.

A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt. Work 6238.

The road ends here: a windsock on a bent mast in the last decade before the collapse, exploded view diagram, long exposure over a night pan. Work 6224.

A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot. Work 6217.

A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window. Work 6213.

A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6191.

A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath. Work 6175.

A ribbed vault of precast units on a car park roof in the year before demolition, scanned from a faded transparency. Work 6171.

The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane. Work 6156.

A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 6132.

A dripping gutter running with neon colour in the years of the long rain, practical neon as the only source, telephoto compression down a street. Work 6131.

A seafront hotel in flat light at a seaside boarding house, the summer of 1976, faded colour slide, white border with rounded corners. Work 6115.

A steam grate breathing into the street under scaffolding left up for years in some November a long way from now, strong edge light in rain. Work 6070.

A net curtained dry lake bed with sailing stones with a road atlas on the bonnet, the year the fridge arrived, oblique aerial photograph. Work 6038.

A thin shell concrete roof and a subway station with a vaulted hall under a bridge deck, the reconstruction years, measured elevation in ink. Work 6024.

An unanswered road that goes into fog, 1963, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6002.

Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street. Work 5999.

Airbrushed rendering on board of a ventilation shaft in the pavement in 1951, neutral density for a long exposure. Work 5993.

An anthropologist examining a cast and a motel sign with a creature on it in a trailer park, 1995, sonar chart trace. Work 5983.

A backlit umbrella with a lit shaft beside a wall of dead televisions, the years of the long rain, telephoto street photograph. Work 5950.