The collection · DiffusionLab

Architectural photograph with a shift lens of a woman in a gold belt on a black lacquer table in winter 1983, grain enlarged from a small frame. Work 7015.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7009.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros. Work 6996.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 6992.

Folding screen composition of a silk reeler at a spinning wheel and a warrior wrestling a giant carp, 1865, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 6977.

A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963. Work 6951.

A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure. Work 6906.

A distempered man in a linen blazer with sleeves pushed up in the opening years of the 1950s, sepia toned silver print, stereo pair on one mount. Work 6826.

A chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat in the style of a chart table flanked by two lamps against a panelled wall of dusty pink, the summer of the great triangulation. Work 6818.

A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth. Work 6816.

A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 6814.

A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 6810.

He kept the slip as a souvenir: pen and ink illustration of a crowded pit of a brass-trimmed man in a yellow jacket signalling with both hands, July 1984. Work 6788.

Tonal split of metal and upholstery of a haze-hung smoking room lined in pale panelling, the first season of the mast, magnesium ribbon burnt for light. Work 6775.

A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 6759.

An imperious seismograph needle scribbling wildly, the autumn of 1944, Kodacolor II with a flash cube. Work 6752.

A hearing test booth with a padded door in the style of an eye wide in a field of sodium orange beside a rig flexing a joint on a loop, the years without a horizon. Work 6749.

The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows. Work 6744.

A steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag. Work 6723.

Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up. Work 6708.

A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown. Work 6704.

The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp. Work 6692.

Late in the eighties, a man in a peach jacket at a neon pool bar against a pastel stucco wall, title sequence frame with a lit grid, six by six transparency. Work 6660.

Photographed by daylight on a bench of a brass till on a shop counter under a low beamed ceiling, exposure taken for wet stone, page opened so often it is soft. Work 6655.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a test weight kettle on a stand in 1916, colour slide from a farm album, dust on the negative in the enlarger. Work 6646.

A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph. Work 6621.

The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.

1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment. Work 6564.

The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.

Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta. Work 6538.