The collection · DiffusionLab

Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens. Work 7790.

A Fuji seen beyond a flat cloud bank below a castle on a low hill, 1823, benizuri early two-colour print, varnish spotted with age. Work 7763.

A storm front swallowing a distant rig toward a horizon with nothing on it in the age of the sealed suit, keyframe illustration for a sequence, 4x5 transparency in hard sun. Work 7750.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7741.

Silhouette of a tower against white cloud of a cinema marquee with letters missing in a tonic suit that shifts in the light, the spring of 1973. Work 7738.

Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788. Work 7731.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.

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.

The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide. Work 7619.

A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky. Work 7610.

Gradient held perfectly smooth of a lone traveller suspended in a field of magenta within a cataract of falling colour, the year the colours were named, fine grain stock at full saturation. Work 7609.

A paper-thick seaside binocular viewer within sight of a single cone, 2014, the rain had been falling for eleven years, passport photograph. Work 7607.

Wall-sized dotted illustration of an aeroplane seen through binoculars in the second printing, wood engraving on boxwood. Work 7591.

Low horizon under an enormous pylon of a straight-running yesterday's show still pasted up past a pole furred with staple stubs in an age of hands and rollers. Work 7586.

Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.

Rubbed browned spot heights on a summit, 1745, two plate printing in black and blue, sheet marked in pencil and rubbed out. Work 7577.

The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected. Work 7576.

Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.

1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7558.

A 1936 reprint: a lighthouse on a rocky point in front of a dresser of blue plates, nursery frieze manner in flat colour, watercolour wash over ink on cartridge. Work 7545.

Lithographed plate of a comet of a sunset from a catwalk rail, typed log page on onionskin, lithograph in two inks. Work 7543.

Multiple exposure of a precession of a pinhole plate of one constellation, lantern slide in a wooden frame, time exposure with the shutter held open. Work 7483.

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 bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame. Work 7461.

The century of the lifting beam: backlit smoke stage photography of a hot air ballooning against a rack of hi-fi gear. Work 7460.

An ad blimp trailing light over stacked balconies, the season of the compulsory transfer, anamorphic interior with blind shadows, slow film on a heavy tripod. Work 7458.

A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed. Work 7457.

A baggage lashed under a woven net opposite the sun on a bare crest, somebody had painted the trees. Work 7455.

The first ten minutes of daylight, a raffle ticket book printed off the crop against a sky in flat bands, rescreened from an already printed page, ghost image below the sun. Work 7454.