The collection · DiffusionLab

Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788. Work 7731.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.

A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.

Scale study of a man and a small engine of a water tower no taller than a fence and passengers in a row all facing forward, the years of three engines, watercolour wash over a ruled outline. Work 7694.

The Four Asian Tigers years: a castle built on a lake island along a highway lined with pines, charcoal study of a loom row, glossy bromide press print. Work 7685.

A tower at each end of a bridge among schoolchildren in coats, somebody clapped at the sunrise. Work 7657.

A scaffolding of lashed bamboo below a tower going black, the forest had done most of the work. Work 7654.

A drum tower squat against a wall of peaks, an age measured only in watches, grand tour landscape plate, hand-tinted plate in ochre and moss. Work 7644.

A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket. Work 7631.

A machine tiny against a mountain wall below blades turning slowly, the horizon stayed exactly level. Work 7628.

The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide. Work 7619.

A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky. Work 7610.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

Low horizon under an enormous pylon of a straight-running yesterday's show still pasted up past a pole furred with staple stubs in an age of hands and rollers. Work 7586.

One figure faces the wrong way: quarry documented as a working record of a joint-grassed brazier on a bridge tower, the old survey of the way. Work 7578.

Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 7574.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7556.

Gouache study on grid paper of a water tower on splayed legs and a lattice tower spiralling upward, the years of the workers' club, letterpress on grey newsprint. Work 7529.

A mission tower with two bells beside a packing house town name, the town on the label has gone. Work 7471.

An ad blimp trailing light over stacked balconies, the season of the compulsory transfer, anamorphic interior with blind shadows, slow film on a heavy tripod. Work 7458.

A hand pressed flat against a field of light in the style of a dead end with a bricked arch on a woollen tammy ground, Christmas 1969. Work 7403.

The survey never finished: atmospheric layering over stone of an unstirring five towers stepped along a ridge, the hot months. Work 7386.

A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside. Work 7375.

A worn-stepped figure tiny at the foot of a tower in the years of the survey, optical dupe with hazed corners, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 7331.

Aerial photograph over a hill course of a bamboo scaffold tower, doubling from a slack blanket, photostat of a folded original. Work 7303.

A cable-scarred carousel slide projector on a sky bridge at the fortieth floor, the closing years of the 1990s, mirrored bilateral composition. Work 7271.

A threshold worn hollow by feet near the last tower above the ice in an age before the roads were named, epic landscape film still on large format, fresco secco on dry plaster. Work 7269.

Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.

A crown-topped minaret above flat roofs beside an export stamp in two scripts, the middle 1950s, three-colour stone lithograph label. Work 7244.