The collection · DiffusionLab

A second-hand skimmer basket full of leaves beside a blue pool vacuum hose, the long summer of 1977, deadpan architectural photograph. Work 10298.

A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.

The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 10186.

Surface shading by close parallel rules of a rejected derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel on a page numbered in the corner in the 1938 edition. Work 10164.

A cube balanced on one corner, the century of the questions, long lens across two miles of haze, view camera with a rising front. Work 10097.

Flat scan of an unfolded insert of a reel wound uneven on a dubbed side in a weekend of dubbing, tape traded for another tape. Work 10066.

A megaphone cone on a tall pole pasted over a halftone crowd, the years of the new typography, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black. Work 10039.

A studio lit manicured hand holding a fresh pack at a lakeside dock, the warning label years, paste up mechanical. Work 10019.

Deadpan portrait of an impossible surface of a figure in a yoke of anodised blue rings on a floor of polished black stone, the week the shells arrived, negative with the frame number visible. Work 9947.

The platform sole years, a robot made of radio parts under the wing of a stopped flyer, hand-held wobble, print with the steam held grey. Work 9937.

A markless hand painted banner of one word in a week of flat white weather, print with the black held very deep, daylight stock rated at thirty two. Work 9862.

Three dials in a row on one panel photographed as an enamel number tag wired to an arm, haze lit interior exposure, colour transparency with pastel walls. Work 9785.

Banner print of eight repeats of a door key in nine flat squares across a proof with a cell missing, squeegee pulled unevenly down the left, screen clog leaving a pale patch. Work 9705.

A flowstone-terraced mounted elderberry cluster hanging down, 1807, white heightening on tinted paper, plate printed in bistre. Work 9696.

Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board. Work 9511.

Diagram plate with numbered call-outs of a derelict with its array torn away in the age of the slow freighters, fine grain stock with a long toe. Work 9328.

The twelve cent era: a platform barrow with milk churns beyond an airfield windsock, poster with one figure in front, a crease running through the panel. Work 9127.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9099.

The century of the built worlds: hard terminator across a hull of a helmet alone under a work lamp against the flank of a vast ring. Work 9072.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8988.

A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold. Work 8846.

A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.

The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all. Work 8702.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8544.

A lifebelt release hook over a hatched section plane in 1881, print with a fold worn through to a slit. Work 8535.

Pure black and white insert art of a peak-pinned speed wobble through a whole song, a rehearsal tape from March, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 8534.

Aerial perspective inside a cavern of a level-poured pulley wheel of hardwood turning slowly on wet gravel beside a folding stool in the last years of the open shaft. Work 8531.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.