The collection · DiffusionLab

A century of carts on one road: a pier of a bridge standing in white water at a relay marker on a straight mile, matte painting of a road across water, oil on canvas with earth pigments. Work 8706.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.

The last dry winter: columns standing in water to their bases at an inscription band half legible, matte painting of a drowned interior, contact print by daylight on the bank. Work 8689.

Underground industrial film still of a hand-spliced dust filter caked and dripping, the decade after the flood gates shut, hand-held at a very wide aperture. Work 8684.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 8678.

A tarpaulin folded into a square at a mooring ring set into stone, muted pastel through green haze, lantern slide in a taped mount. Work 8669.

Shafts of sun down a gate passage across a plain standing under water, the third series of the standard body, industrial catalogue photography, available light laboratory frame. Work 8661.

An algae bloom seen from space with the gate chained shut, the summer of 1914, video still from a worn tape, photostat. Work 8658.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

A sun disc doubled in the river and a fisherman standing in a narrow canoe, scale study of a boat and a bank, wet gate printed dupe. Work 8641.

A cash-rich moa browsing in a New Zealand forest, the spring of 1955, dissolving view slide, press flash negative in a holder. Work 8626.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

A sample tin with a paper label beside a truck standing on the rails in 1856, chromolithograph of a cavern sea, no visible source and a full exposure. Work 8617.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A camera mast turning slowly made of announcement screen over a trading floor across the plaza at the tower foot, the years the sun reached only the crowns, pen and ink cutaway with hatching. Work 8605.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 8576.

The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.

A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.

A wind-filled half-visible brass tray left in the open sun, a week of unbroken white sky, telephoto shot flattening a whole valley, emulsion scratched down one edge. Work 8553.

Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25. Work 8548.

A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground. Work 8547.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

A shell beach made of tiny white shells made of gallery of columns filled with haze past a row of bathing huts, the mid-century modern years, headlight trails. Work 8515.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.