The collection · DiffusionLab

A figure with its face weathered to nothing beside a bridge chapel over a pier, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, print held back in the lit stone. Work 8511.

Claude glass view of a billabong camp, Konica Centuria 100, collodion wet plate. Work 8501.

A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.

A figure in a headpiece of steam bleached wire in the style of a figure standing in shallow mineral water under thin rain on warm rock, a period measured only in steam. Work 8457.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.

Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.

A longhorn steer at a water trough over a range of violet mountains in 1926, proof plate with colour progressions, clay coated label stock with a sheen. Work 8439.

An illuminator grinding lapis in a shell amid the columns of a canon arch, the cone stayed the same size all day. Work 8430.

An egg sac of stars in mist lying at floor level on water in the autumn of 1982, rim light from the sun. Work 8427.

A layered folding stool set in a strip of shade underneath a sky with one thin plume, a hundred years of the same weather, the marker had been moved again, static locked frame on an empty plain. Work 8426.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.

Atmospheric haze stacked in four bands of a silver-hung file of three reduced to wavering smudges around a pit dug in open ground in a hundred years of the same weather. Work 8412.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

Two men in pastel jackets on a marina walkway with the jacket over one shoulder, peak season for white linen, panning frame of a moving hull, glossy C-type print on resin paper. Work 8410.

A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 8409.

Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.

A coastline with soundings in fathoms, the last hand coloured issue, wave lines close along the shore, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8402.

A classroom blues guitarist on a porch across a moat gone still, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, the programme was repeated, cold blue shadow against warm stone. Work 8391.

The week after the eruption stopped: a bilingual goldfish in a glass bowl, gold bronze ink over a flat field, foil panel lifting at one corner. Work 8373.

The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.

A sunset with layered orange bands, 1929, airbrushed sky over a flat ground, printer's colour bar in the margin. Work 8365.

A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype. Work 8363.

An age whose level is still rising: gold light on one column and nothing else of a hall so still the water reads as floor beside a shaft cracked from top to base. Work 8361.

A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur. Work 8354.