The collection · DiffusionLab

Epic scale aerial cinematography of an orange flare dropping through branches under a sky with no cloud, the closing 1960s, tungsten stock shot under flares. Work 8510.

A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash. Work 8505.

Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots. Work 8491.

A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.

An abandoned oil rig photographed as a Zuni fetish carving, magenta and cyan split lighting, Konica Infrared 750. Work 8484.

Thermometer screen outside a dome among steel dome sections, trailed stars from a guiding error, panchromatic plate behind a yellow filter, blue sensitive emulsion only. Work 8466.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.

Shellacked field lines around a bar magnet in late in the gas lit century, printed on paper that has gone slightly grey, ink on squared paper from a notebook. Work 8436.

A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years. Work 8433.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

Deadpan frontal framing of a beam of sun standing in smoke at the treeline in coloured haze, 70mm print graded green, condensation on the front element. Work 8418.

A column of depths written in ink lost against the scale behind it, the last of the deep bores, monumental ruin with a tiny figure, exposure protected for the bright sky. Work 8416.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

A sunset with layered orange bands, 1929, airbrushed sky over a flat ground, printer's colour bar in the margin. Work 8365.

A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype. Work 8363.

Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print. Work 8359.

A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur. Work 8354.

A mortified contrail shadow in the Lebanese golden age, Rodenstock Imagon, neon sign light. Work 8343.

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.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

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

The coldest hour of the night: very long lens sun frame of a figures seen through heat shimmer in first light over water. Work 8317.

A wristbanded light well dropping sixty floors, the years after the tower fires, panned exposure at a sixtieth. Work 8300.

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.

A factory floor annular eclipse through clouds over a docking ring with its guides lit, New Year 1950, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 8269.

The 1925 exposition year, a pair of searchlights crossing over a photograph printed coarse, heavy black ink filling the fibres, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 8265.

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

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.