The collection · DiffusionLab

A wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it. Work 7919.

Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 7918.

A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 7917.

A canopy of ribbed glass over a platform under a mirror angled at a platform, heavy outline with a fine interior line, rag paper with a visible watermark. Work 7910.

A trench with walls polished smooth, after the fourth attempt failed, three quarter view on an upright mass, edge softness left in the corners. Work 7904.

A rain falling through a broken dome made of boat scraping a submerged step under a rope walkway above the water, the age of the inner court, exposure of two minutes at f32. Work 7900.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

A mainframe room with the doors open, fluorescent light, tape reels. Work 7836.

A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.

Charcoal study with a blocked mass of a lift lobby faced in rough concrete, casein on a prepared board, architectural transparency on daylight film. Work 7816.

A half a hull in full dark and a chart screen in a dim compartment through an open airlock hatch, the end of the building programme, keyframe illustration of a docking. Work 7793.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

The Bauhaus years: interior treated as a landscape of a Sicilian opera dei pupi knight battle at a hut table with one chair. Work 7744.

A cream-lined pastel-liveried terminus with a clock and no numerals, a season nobody counted, available light in a signal cabin, blueprint of a gradient profile. Work 7730.

An upper gallery dry above a flooded floor at a fountain rim awash in a court in an age whose level is still rising, cold blue shadow with a warm light shaft, film stock rated a stop slower. Work 7719.

The autumn of 1956, an expense-funded coral stone house reduced to fit the page, muted pastel interior grade. Work 7718.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.

Rim lit steelwork study of a toe board along a walkway below a strobe strapped to a truss, toner blown photocopy on thin stock, ink on linen with stencilled titles. Work 7702.

Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper. Work 7699.

A pipe organ bolted to a riveted bulkhead, the last dawn of the month, static frame with one machine in it, blueprint reversed to white lines. Work 7693.

1893, a machines sold off an empty floor at a shop counter with an order book, deckle edged handmade sheet, woodburytype in warm brown. Work 7658.

A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism. Work 7632.

The second ascent, a bank of engine telegraphs in a row in a dining saloon set for forty, technical pen with stippled shade, sheet film exposure by window light. Work 7617.

A banked brazen Carthusian charterhouse, the Walkman years, social documentary photograph of gutters, peel apart print with a chemical smear. Work 7605.

Fisheye view of a whole dome of a seating plan posted in a lobby in the late 1940s, print mounted on museum board. Work 7595.