The collection · DiffusionLab

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7769.

Folio plate coloured by hand of a migrant sawmill cutting props to length, 1854, engraving on India paper laid down. Work 7765.

Canopy treated as architecture of a bowl passed from hand to hand, sepia ink wash on laid paper, box splinter stuck to the reverse. Work 7762.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 7692.

Stillness with one moving cart of a flood-marked shaft of light falling through a gate between two colossal gate figures in an age whose end is not recorded. Work 7690.

A slow-hauling ski instructor with a line of toddlers in a torn t-shirt held together with pins, the summer of 1971, 405 line telerecording frame. Work 7680.

The yard ran whether ships came or not: 70mm scale study in deep focus of a pressure-sealed suited figure beside a rivet the size of a fist, the second building era. Work 7678.

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.

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.

Silhouetted figure at a great window of a factory floor with every machine silent, daylight stock gone amber, varnish over a printed plate. Work 7611.

A banked brazen Carthusian charterhouse, the Walkman years, social documentary photograph of gutters, peel apart print with a chemical smear. Work 7605.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

A crowd standing in the only shade without a cloud over the well in the century the stair was cut, tonal study in stone and shadow, splice at a reel change. Work 7600.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7572.

The inspection lasted eleven minutes: a dust suspended over a polished floor in 1806, two colour plate in ochre and oxblood, large format sheet film with deep haze. Work 7537.

She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

A soot-inked paper lantern shop at dusk in 1814, carver's seal beside the title, album page with a paper hinge. Work 7526.

A cribbed elevator with a steep cupola roof, mill engineering sectional figure, grandfather waited six hours to unload, tape stain along a print edge. Work 7515.

Shaded block capitals in two inks of an apple with a deep red blush under a tile roofed arcade, two flats overprinted for a deep green, wheat paste stain through the paper. Work 7503.

A dust-free blower duct under a dome floor under a pointer arrow of light, 1923, filmstrip frame for a lecture. Work 7488.

The years the shrine was tended, a cold-toned arch of dressed stone under branches with the light coming in level, museum case lit from one slot. Work 7485.

A woman in a gown with a plaque on her palm photographed as a figure lit magenta with a cyan shadow, police custody photograph, four colour halftone on art paper. Work 7476.

Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.