The collection · DiffusionLab

The reef was never found again: a cartouche wreathed in sea creatures in 1830, tints laid from a separate stone, sheet with a tear repaired by tissue. Work 7662.

Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout. Work 7661.

A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured. Work 7660.

Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.

1893, a machines sold off an empty floor at a shop counter with an order book, deckle edged handmade sheet, woodburytype in warm brown. Work 7658.

A tower at each end of a bridge among schoolchildren in coats, somebody clapped at the sunrise. Work 7657.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

A figure in a sulphur yellow cloak photographed as a padrón pepper, test pattern still, photographed flat under soft light. Work 7655.

A scaffolding of lashed bamboo below a tower going black, the forest had done most of the work. Work 7654.

A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure. Work 7653.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7652.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.

A needle threaded with two strands made of crazy patchwork with worked seams on a sheet where the ink has bled, an Edwardian workbasket, silk floss on a linen ground. Work 7649.

A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage. Work 7648.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

A rosary on a bedpost in an orchard in blossom in Christmas 1952, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 7646.

Feature matchbook with a shaped top of a silt-veiled cocktail glass with an olive, the post-war export years, aniline pink shifted toward grey. Work 7645.

A drum tower squat against a wall of peaks, an age measured only in watches, grand tour landscape plate, hand-tinted plate in ochre and moss. Work 7644.

A tardigrade crawling through moss made of figure on a boardwalk over a mud pool under a striped awning on a terrace, the middle years of the 1980s, rotogravure page in a hire catalogue. Work 7643.

1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 7642.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome. Work 7641.

Trade circular illustration of a pointer rod resting in a brass fork, pinholes in a flat area of ink, rescreened moire over the flats. Work 7640.

Balcony overview photograph of a fog-wrapped man in a scarlet shirt open to the waist, high season 1978, Cibachrome print with hard gloss. Work 7639.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7638.

An utterly deadpan bay window with twelve small panes beside a barometer flanked by two chart frames, 1820, wide angle plate with true verticals. Work 7637.

A horizon erased by identical whites in the glare at the middle of the day in the years a crossing took four days, large format negative stopped right down. Work 7636.

Available light at high noon of a shadow-casting camp lights against a black mass, after the site was left open, daylight balanced stock at noon. Work 7635.

A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass. Work 7634.

A taotie, study of one silhouette lit from behind, the guard blew the whistle and laughed, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7633.