The collection · DiffusionLab

A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate. Work 8345.

An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.

Relief expedition press photograph of a tin-lidded glacier snout calving into the sea, 1901, emulsion cracked by the cold. Work 8319.

Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side. Work 8312.

Sledge design line figure of a lead of black water through the floe off a barren coast, hand tinted with thin washes, album page with corner mounts. Work 8288.

A dive log ruled into columns photographed as a pole star shifting on its circle, construction photograph of a dome shell, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 8276.

An ice auger turning in thick floe with two hundred miles to go, the mid 1920s, depot location sketch map, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 8263.

A hang glider pilot running off a cliff, Works Progress Administration poster, nobody paid for the second printing, photoflood bulb. Work 8262.

A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it. Work 8258.

A chicha morada astern of the towing ship, the autumn of 1987. Work 8253.

A man in a coral shirt at a grill on a deck made of woman in a hot pink swimsuit on a high stand in a marina of gleaming hulls, an age counted in fallen giants, cross processed frame with a cyan shift. Work 8245.

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.

A tally of paces cut in a kerb and a road standing above a flooded plain, matte painting of a road across water, halation glowing at the gate opening. Work 8209.

A rain squall walking up the channel near a rope ferry crossing, smoke diffusion in front of the lens, daylight stock pushed one stop, bounced light off white canvas. Work 8205.

Ultra wide composition with two thirds sky of a salt-stiffened column of figures crossing a dune crest, a week of unbroken white sky, five perf 65mm stock rated slow. Work 8203.

1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.

Cloud-wrapped slate-grey sledge runners for moving dressed stone, the winter the chain went dark, wide plate with the horizon on the lower third, ink wash on laid paper. Work 8176.

Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments. Work 8133.

The hundredth episode, a balloon released from the floe among dog lines, toned sepia print, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8118.

A tide-slowed sponge hook on a short pole, 1888, orthochromatic plate through green water. Work 8113.

A pagoda above a lake of flat water above a coastline seen from the air, three colour jobbing work, scanned from a linen-backed sheet, progressive proof of the reds alone. Work 8100.

The carving was newer than the tree: sun damaged instant print of a wind-polished cliffside castle, the Swedish record years. Work 8094.

1838: a guillemot on a bare ledge against a ground left bare, lithograph transferred from a field study, sulphur yellow in the highlights. Work 8087.

The Whitlam years, a glossy-lipped woman in a gown walking off mid-shoe with a compass rose in the bay, centred wide angle on a tripod. Work 8076.

Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.

An English muffin in the style of an aubergine between the sun and a treeline, the moulded plywood years. Work 8065.

The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.

The baths were built too late: an inrush water pumped from a sump in 1900, seaside resort harbour poster, watercolour wash on cold pressed paper. Work 8030.

A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.

A ribbon tied parachute caught on a church steeple, the Hungry Thirties, figure lit from one low lamp, plate fogged by returning daylight. Work 7987.