The collection · DiffusionLab

A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round. Work 10285.

A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones. Work 10273.

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.

A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.

A moulding plane photographed as a Viking ship burial, Bayeux stitch embroidery, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 10221.

Landscape with the weather left in of a small figure crossing a moss covered flow, scan with grain visible in the sky, panoramic crop across a lava plain. Work 10132.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept. Work 10085.

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.

Torn montage with the older layer showing of a flyer with a ransom-note headline, two colour flyer with the red off register, run of two hundred pasted in a night. Work 10058.

A frost on the inside of an office window, harvest of 1928, fire insurance plan in ink and wash, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 10051.

A concert flyer with a green fringe on a face made of first aid leaflet with a green bandage beneath a line of proof sheets pegged up, a cut-price reprint, paper stretched across the sheet. Work 10025.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9984.

A faintly amused locust swarm behind a row of dark trees, the Gupta period, medical teaching lantern slide. Work 9976.

The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.

A king penguin colony stretching to the horizon, Paubha painting, first house and second house, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 9963.

Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit. Work 9952.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

A lasagne with too many layers made of umibozu within a decorated initial letter, the Ottoman classical age, glow of a rheostat lamp. Work 9936.

Anamorphic frame of dense forest of a mud printed with bare feet below a roof of leaves, the third day inland, front element fogged with damp. Work 9924.

A wolpertinger mounted in a hunting lodge at a bench of ruling pens in a row, onionskin second sheet, print with the sea tint slightly out, Fomapan R100 reversal. Work 9920.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9889.

A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative. Work 9888.

A crown of the Andes at Le Jardin in the Argentine Proceso, Ektachrome gone cyan. Work 9880.

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 time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board. Work 9857.

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 nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses. Work 9826.