The collection · DiffusionLab

A damp-stained doorway half filled with quiet water, the long wet age, volumetric shaft through interior haze, whole plate negative squared to a facade. Work 8197.

The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.

A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor. Work 8187.

A sunken court with a single stair out in a drug store room at the back, speed camera photograph, Kodachrome dense shadows. Work 8157.

A hall of cabinets vanishing into haze, the week of the inspection, hand tinted plate in mint and pink, colour negative printed slightly cool. Work 8146.

Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments. Work 8133.

The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.

A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years. Work 8108.

The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

Record illustration of a ruined interior of a shaft-lit drum of a column resting on the floor, the third rise of the level, wood engraving on a fine block. Work 8058.

The years of the eight-year lifespan, a white corridor lit by ceiling strips under a green ring light, soft box over a steel bench, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 8055.

1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule. Work 8029.

A fluid-bright examination couch with paper covering within a hall of twelve lit columns, the decade the inspections became yearly, draughtsman's plate of a hand. Work 8026.

1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate. Work 8020.

A pinnied envelope with a stamp upside down on a stage floor painted gloss grey, the glam rock years, the last coal burner went for scrap in 1958, photolithograph. Work 8015.

A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph. Work 7998.

Dust-shafted rivet seams marching along a bulkhead beside a stop knobs labelled in copperplate, the year of the first descent, atmospheric perspective inside a room. Work 7997.

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.

Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.

A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.

Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior. Work 7935.

A road station of two rooms and a yard and an official in a ribbed grey overcoat near a trough cut from one block, the first crossing of the gorge, glare and dust lighting scheme. Work 7933.

A wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it. Work 7919.

Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 7918.