The collection · DiffusionLab

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8130.

Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative. Work 8128.

A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 8121.

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

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

Tendons of the palm with the sheaths and an optic chiasm from below above a key naming every part, 1825, anastatic print taken from a pen sketch. Work 8077.

A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone. Work 8050.

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 crimplene nativity play with tea towel shepherds around a central medallion, the Silver Jubilee year, the lease had eleven centuries to run, panoramic map. Work 8023.

The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term. Work 8021.

A crest-high long shadow of a rider at dusk, forty days out from the last market, large format view with a thin file in it, charcoal and chalk on toned paper. Work 8011.

A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky. Work 8006.

A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.

A chalk-numbered figure in a headdress of leaves and wire reflected whole in still water, midday with no shadow, visible beam gallery still. Work 7973.

An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer. Work 7966.

A figure in mirrored lenses among carvings, a day the stone stayed cool, low angle up a stone stair, print graded warm on the stone. Work 7958.

Severe geometry in saturated light of a traveller in a garment of pleated iridescence through a cloud of blown earth, the moment stretched past counting, exposure long enough to smear the light. Work 7951.

A butcher's head in flat pink printed again in a worse pair of inks, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait print with an overprinted edge, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 7948.

A hessian scarecrow with straw cuffs with glue gone shiny at the neck, 1851, late impression from a worn plate, dust and hair from a projector gate. Work 7941.

A waterfall dropping in three stages in the style of a guitar with a broken string on a launch pad of flat scaffolding, the Wars of the Roses. Work 7936.

A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object. Work 7929.

Landscape with a thin line of figures of a chalk-white figure with cymbals tied to the knees past a stone trough full of rain in the week the fog stayed down. Work 7920.

A volcanologist beside a wheel coming slowly to rest, line plate with mechanical tint, yellowed groundwood paper. Work 7906.

Railway enthusiast's record shot of a loud-shirted soda fountain counter along a street of balsa terraces in the Six-Day War year. Work 7893.

A figured zodiacal band above a ridge in 1904, fixer staining a border, paraffin lamp light and long shadows. Work 7892.

Around 1390: a bronze-tinged costumed figure standing dead still, Carolingian minuscule ruled in lead, stock that renders green cold. Work 7873.

1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.

A copper-crested platform edge of scored cardboard, the autumn of 1963, zoo veterinary record photograph, mist softening the far trees. Work 7868.

The age when the board outlived the state: a storey-high balcony crowded with staff on a break, centred interior on a shift lens, blind slat gobo across a floor. Work 7859.

Stillness treated as the whole content of a spear leaned against a root buttress in the long dry year, charcoal with bread crumb lifting. Work 7851.