The collection · DiffusionLab

A smoke-stained tower yard of packed earth and stone, the years the road was widened, heroic scale study with a human for measure, negative varnished after fixing. Work 10228.

A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 10147.

A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop. Work 10090.

Atmospheric depth in five bands of a stencilled numeral two metres tall in the shade of an undercroft, long after the architects left, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 10013.

Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.

A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate. Work 9931.

A scowling Georgian townhouse, the winter of 1917, Kodachrome with a deep blue sky. Work 9717.

The padlock was newer than the cover: production illustration in dust tones of a beam-lifted vault of brick above still water, the season every herd came at once. Work 9526.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

Streets left white between ruled blocks of a market square with its cross, lantern slide of a chart detail, india proof mounted on thick paper. Work 9337.

A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds. Work 9234.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city. Work 8975.

Silhouette cut against flat colour of a revolving stage with a long ramp against a wall of raw brick, the first years of photomontage, gelatin silver print on matte paper. Work 8892.

Single frame move along a street of a gutter of split dowel along a roof, 16mm negative graded for a hobby film, black surround cropped to the town. Work 8824.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 8701.

Tableau in a stone courtyard of paper flags strung between columns in one year after the road closed, print with highlights held down. Work 8474.

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.

Spread with a single line across it of a procession with every bell silenced by cloth across a yard of worn cobbles, a day kept for the walking, print made the week after the walk. Work 8400.

The year of the lockout, a brake lever in the winder house along a cobbled colliery row, two colour offset print, platinum print of a pit yard. Work 8398.

A classroom blues guitarist on a porch across a moat gone still, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, the programme was repeated, cold blue shadow against warm stone. Work 8391.

The years of the survey, a cicada noise in a stone corridor below a collapsed roof, haze held in the beam by a fan, arc lamp through a doorway. Work 8252.

The 1990s: ajrakh block print of a resonance tube with a tuning fork along a street of painted fronts. Work 8251.

A promenade of striped awnings under an awning of stripes, aviation poster from the cockpit, four pin holes at the corners. Work 8224.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

Backlit crowd rimmed in white of a forty steps cut into bedrock beneath a sky flat and white, the age when a well was the town, scratch along one sprocket edge. Work 8156.

A stage brace propped behind a flat before a painted village street, his nose was a bottle top all along. Work 8144.

A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 8121.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

An arch-spanned trough cut from one block of stone, the age of the road builders, near-monochrome stone with gold accents, ground glass squared to the road axis. Work 8091.