The collection · DiffusionLab

Saddle between two peaks in a mosque courtyard, the spring of 1958, abattoir inspection photograph, hand-tinted in two soft washes. Work 10260.

The camera ran out: a row of fruit machines in 1964, projected home movie, Kodachrome II movie film. Work 10246.

The polish took longer than the winding: a dome interior painted a dusty pink in the year of the second inventory, long exposure of an empty hall, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 10071.

Severe frontal framing of a gateway of a Terylene ijiraq, the Streamline Moderne years, Wollensak Verito. Work 9755.

A shaft of sun standing in a gallery inside a corridor with a bright end, dream sequence stone still, long lens stacking the towers. Work 9643.

One point perspective down a colonnade of a rock-cut figure alone on a vast concrete stair, the far end of the first expansion, drum scan off a large transparency. Work 9613.

The month of the flower offerings: location cinematography in ruins of a path through forest to a stone door in green haze along a colonnade. Work 9597.

A column of walkers with bells tied to the wrist, a season with no feast in it, procession treated as a single object, print with a cool cast in the shadows. Work 9193.

A two structures set in exact line past a line of broken pillars, large format chrome in bright sun, 65mm negative with a clean gate, oil on linen with a thin ground. Work 9189.

Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.

A pillars broken off at the same height, vanishing point held on a straight edge, the surface was cold in full sun, one stop under to keep the black. Work 9176.

Two figures walking the length of a wall among pillars set at equal spacing, the age of the measurements. Work 8638.

Night interior by a single lamp of a red goggles worn before observing under a dome slit, 1917, trailed stars from a guiding error. Work 8633.

We closed the rink and went for pancakes: silkscreen flyer in three flat colours of a chrome-wheeled pinball machine with a crowd on it, the roller boom. Work 8602.

A lintel cracked by a trunk and a cloth tied around a stone pillar, enamel on copper in a small oval, tungsten stock in a stone room. Work 8532.

The years of the survey: a wet stone holding a violet sky through a gallery of columns, held wide shot of a courtyard, 65mm negative on warm stone. Work 8525.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Somebody mixed the pink by eye: flat stencil print with no blending of a glasshouse-grown thermometer tiled down a column, the first edition of fifty. Work 8309.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film. Work 7999.

Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior. Work 7935.

An upper gallery dry above a flooded floor at a fountain rim awash in a court in an age whose level is still rising, cold blue shadow with a warm light shaft, film stock rated a stop slower. Work 7719.

A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.

A tiled fountain with a brass spout inside a whitewashed courtyard, the same scene served two growers. Work 7575.

The inspection lasted eleven minutes: a dust suspended over a polished floor in 1806, two colour plate in ochre and oxblood, large format sheet film with deep haze. Work 7537.

A floor plan illustration mounted on a stand photographed as a bucket and mop beside a monumental column, heat shimmer used as the far plane, 70mm interior frame. Work 7535.