The collection · DiffusionLab

Symmetrical composition between two figures of a soot-darkened stone jetty running out into shallow water, the first crossing of the gorge, wet collodion on a large glass plate. Work 7533.

A mirage pool with a figure standing in it made of red grouse on burnt heather above the base of a dissolving cliff, the far end of a long afternoon, folio sheet folded to the gutter. Work 7494.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges at the head of a worn approach, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 7481.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.

A wedge started with a sledge and a skid road town at the waterfront, saturated tropical colour still, aerial haze flattening a ridge. Work 7452.

Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks. Work 7429.

An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette. Work 7416.

A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.

A hardboard floor meeting a painted horizon as one of a numbered series, the mid 1870s, cutaway model, photostat of a section illustration. Work 7383.

A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks. Work 7369.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.

Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer. Work 7301.

A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away. Work 7300.

A crown-topped minaret above flat roofs beside an export stamp in two scripts, the middle 1950s, three-colour stone lithograph label. Work 7244.

Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.

A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.

Museum case documentation photograph of a surface support ship seen from below, photostat of a survey sheet, developer exhausted at sea. Work 7218.

A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast. Work 7210.

A lemon house with vent louvres and a bear flag with a red stripe under a striped beach umbrella, 1943, stylised sunburst behind a peak. Work 7209.

The age of the long causeway: antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of two roads meeting at a carved post against a wall of black water. Work 7189.

A rhinestoned spaceship gangway with the band on it with a wind machine going, the second album year, fat slab type with a gold rim. Work 7180.

A biosphere dome made of beluga blowing bubble rings by the only lit window on a face, the winter of 1968, hand tinted engraving in pale washes. Work 7109.

A crowd waving hats over the armco, helicopter frame over a bay, the pool was heated for no reason, cross processed frame with a cyan shift. Work 7100.

Photomontage travel poster of a tram climbing a seafront hill on an enamel station sign, the 1931 winter season, four-colour offset lithograph. Work 7082.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues. Work 7057.

A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

Orthographic elevation of an arcade of an arcade receding into water and haze in the years after the sluice failed, vellum sheet with a ruled margin. Work 7040.