The collection · DiffusionLab

1905: a bear track beside a boot print by the light of a blubber lamp, reproduced diary page, snow glare flattening every form. Work 8509.

Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885. Work 8507.

A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash. Work 8505.

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

The winter the wing was shut: a funicular-served planet projector on an armature, pastel study of a lobby, mimeographed programme page. Work 8496.

Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.

Zinc line block printed with the text of a provisional vacuum brake cylinder and ball valve, 1893, sheet with a grease mark from a bench. Work 8481.

Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured. Work 8479.

A dozen lifetimes on: a concrete screen with a repeated opening in the shade of an undercroft, shade and glare with no mid tone, stopped down for a deep focus field. Work 8478.

Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book. Work 8462.

Bird's eye photograph of a stair of a marshaller lit from one side in orange aligned to a baseline grid, letterpress with a visible bite, star filter on a low sun. Work 8461.

The season the brine never rose, a pyramid of salt with a figure beside it at the edge of a drying pan, dye transfer print in white and indigo, one stop over for a dark garment. Work 8460.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition. Work 8450.

A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.

A teardrop caravan across a floor strewn with offcuts, Anscochrome 64, 4:3 picture with the tabs at the edges, insert folded along four creases. Work 8435.

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

Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.

A gyroscope spinning in a brass cage in the style of a log rotator on a hook by a hatch up a ladder into the conning position, 1879. Work 8420.

The middle term: architectural interior plate in flat light of a courtyard fountain dry in a stone floor across an acre of polished stone. Work 8406.

Souvenir programme illustration of a rack of costumes wheeled past a camera in the second season, Nikon with a 24mm on the floor. Work 8404.

A boot-worn spar tree guyed with cable in the year of the big burn, print faded to a pale brown, damp-stained print. Work 8401.

A seed-drifted carved stone head half sunk in leaf litter beside a lichen map spreading over pale bark, a season when the leaves did not fall, antiquarian plate of a wooded ruin. Work 8390.

Wall panel print with cells butted up of a taped banana repeated across a yellow grid above a row printed in the wrong order in the year of the ten colourways. Work 8389.

A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study. Work 8379.

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 rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window. Work 8358.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.