The collection · DiffusionLab

A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes. Work 10081.

A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative. Work 10076.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys. Work 9865.

The last century of the leech: an aromatic brass syringe in a velvet bed, woodcut with the colour outside the line, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 9833.

A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran. Work 9778.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks. Work 9253.

New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.

A long haul trucker on a CB radio before the dining room was opened, 2023, Nutshell Studies miniature, glossy four by six with a white edge. Work 8844.

A lean to roofed with banana leaf beside a green shuttered window in the last hours of daylight, colour graded warm and heavy, half-tone on a heavy art paper. Work 8734.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

A stamped works mark on a billet end made of micrograph of a grain boundary beside a cooling bed of red bars, the summer of the big heat, videotape frame with head bars. Work 8007.

A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.

A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it. Work 7919.

A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.

A rosary on a bedpost in an orchard in blossom in Christmas 1952, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 7646.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7603.

Symmetrical framing between two trunks of a casita beside a recompression chamber, impression too light in the tail, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 7573.

A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph. Work 7498.

A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 7107.

The night after the roof let in rain, a beam-cut turbine bed with the machine gone with the strobe at full rate, strobe lit frame with frozen motion. Work 7093.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

Frontal frame from a shot list of a half sectioned iron bedstead, the first year of the internet, impression taken before the lettering. Work 7002.

The hundredth issue, a suitcase open on a motel bed in a hallway of solid black shadow, registration pins used loosely, squeegee pulled twice in one stroke. Work 6941.

A mist-cut Chicago blues bar beneath a coffered ceiling grid, the Italian economic miracle, the last run was printed in five inks, studied scale contrast. Work 6923.

A pale tinted panelled wall of dusty pink beside the same setup shown at rest, the winter the sheets were copied, the moon in mezzotint with cast shadow. Work 6858.

The black and white television years: a sponsor approved hotel balcony with shutters thrown open, resort advertisement in a Sunday supplement, colour gravure on coated stock. Work 6548.

Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear. Work 6412.

Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years. Work 6393.