The collection · DiffusionLab

A line of pillars set at equal spacing before a surface taking no light, long lens across two miles of haze, egg tempera over a chalk ground. Work 8836.

A tube rack of eighty identical mouths in the style of a ruling pen wiped on a cloth up a ladder to the high pigeonholes, the winter the sheets were copied. Work 8832.

A rebus of a name in a border, Arts and Crafts glazing in clear lights, it came out of a house being pulled down, lead came stopped with oily cement. Work 8820.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference. Work 8806.

A counterweight of stacked brass discs above a plinth of pale marble, the season before the great model arrived. Work 8804.

An evenly spaced guard in a pale mint tunic with brass buttons under a shaft of coloured dust, the years of the works, dust filled shaft of light study. Work 8799.

The Algerian War years: a tugboat nudging a liner within a turning ring station, flat shaded polygon render, bulb flash on a dark terrace. Work 8793.

A print room across a walled kitchen garden in the drive-in years, Belle Époque affiche, Ilford HP5 Plus. Work 8779.

Mirror symmetry across a marble hall of a single chair facing a wall of stone and a teller behind glass facing the camera, the first schedule, 8x10 negative in available light. Work 8774.

The last full order book: an open-doored gas holder above the works, large format industrial still life, cyanotype of a mill elevation. Work 8770.

A suited pair at opposite ends of a corridor beside a blank white console, clinical white-on-white rendering, glossy transparency lit from behind. Work 8764.

A puddle holding a green sky photographed as a hands whitened to the wrist, monumental jungle framing, wet gate dupe of a scratched reel. Work 8761.

An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.

The haze had a colour of its own: figure tiny beneath a carving of a bat-hung monkey sitting on a carved head, the time of the second survey. Work 8758.

The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.

Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a pair of colossal seated figures flanking a pass in the age of the high builders, one working printed short of the edge. Work 8732.

Miners gala souvenir print of a downcast shaft in cold air under a chimney by the boiler house, the last year of hand hewing, ferrotyped gloss print. Work 8730.

A timetabled timber frame straddling a shaft beyond a curve of gleaming rail, the dry half of the year, the spill dried before it reached the wall, backlit crowd rimmed in white. Work 8727.

A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph. Work 8721.

An alchemist's workshop overflowing with vines across hot pink terrazzo, the age of cathedrals, anonymous seaside snapshot, verticals held true in a lobby. Work 8719.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

Muted ochre against near black of a catchment terrace angled to a cistern between a stair and a sheer drop, architectural transparency on daylight film, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 8709.

Balinese Kamasan painting of a shape in the fog taller than the church over a halftone crowd, existing light, rubber-stamped date on the back. Work 8705.

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

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.

Main titles over a plaster ridge of a hard lit hardboard floor drilled in a grid, the second unit schedule of 1972, exposure step between two frames. Work 8677.

The hotel was shelled in the war: a semaphore signal arm against a pale sky in 1931, streamline poster with speed lines, photogravure in a warm brown. Work 8673.

Corporate annual review frame of a shaft of amber light falling on a stone floor in the quiet tenancy, mixed daylight and tungsten cast. Work 8670.