The collection · DiffusionLab

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

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.

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.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

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 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.

Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885. Work 8507.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

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 wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.

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.

A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism. Work 7632.

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.

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.

A provincial hotel room with the curtains open at a window in the afternoon, 1960, nothing happens for a long time, empty frame after the actors leave. Work 5975.

A warehouse with high windows at a lawn meet in 1945, charcoal portrait study, nitrate print with deep blacks. Work 5974.