The collection · DiffusionLab

Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.

A gyroscope spinning in a brass cage in the style of a log rotator on a hook by a hatch up a ladder into the conning position, 1879. Work 8420.

A clay octopus with eight thumbed arms above the set on a camera rostrum in one long afternoon in 1969, magenta shift in the shadows. Work 8415.

Souvenir programme illustration of a rack of costumes wheeled past a camera in the second season, Nikon with a 24mm on the floor. Work 8404.

Wall panel print with cells butted up of a taped banana repeated across a yellow grid above a row printed in the wrong order in the year of the ten colourways. Work 8389.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study. Work 8379.

An age whose level is still rising: gold light on one column and nothing else of a hall so still the water reads as floor beside a shaft cracked from top to base. Work 8361.

A rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window. Work 8358.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey. Work 8346.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull. Work 8334.

A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart. Work 8326.

A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open. Work 8308.

A concierge centred behind a pink marble desk photographed as a brass frame screwed beside a door, overhead plate of a laid table, single lamp raking across marble. Work 8307.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 8304.

A brass line running the length of a floor within a border of alternate light and dark, Kodamatic Trimprint, exposed for the highlights, NTSC video frame. Work 8299.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

The years of the survey, a cicada noise in a stone corridor below a collapsed roof, haze held in the beam by a fan, arc lamp through a doorway. Work 8252.

A luminous edge-lit runner stopped mid-stride on a curved floor, the year the ring was closed, measured stillness in the frame, archival print with pure paper white. Work 8241.

A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth. Work 8235.

A quietly absurd tea can warming on a tiny boiler dwarfed by the plain around it, the short seasons, timetable leaflet cover image. Work 8234.

Ultra-wide frame with no horizon of a figure dissolved at the edges by glare in the age of the bright corridor, clean gradient held on a big negative. Work 8229.

An inflatable dome and an elevator being pulled down by cable under fluorescent tube lighting, the second half of the century, moiré patterned halftone. Work 8228.

Tableau of crew in matched pairs of a grand salon behind a single oval viewport outside a lit oval viewport, the second season under the ice, oil on panel with glazed shadows. Work 8216.

A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.