The collection

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A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 10120.
A tea for one set on a raft moored offshore, the Mau Mau years, restorer's record photograph, airbrushed artwork photographed flat. Work 10064.
A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.
A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard. Work 9962.
A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.
1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.
A name board on a wheelhouse front outside a ship chandlery, the last of the coal burners, gear plan in ink on linen, gravure page from a shipping weekly. Work 9244.
The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.
The last one on the roll: a rope ferry hut with a tin roof in the year the hospital opened, health and safety inspection photograph, fibre print with a warm black. Work 9088.
Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.
A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype. Work 8363.
Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.
The week of continuous rain: a noise-battered guard hut with a bare bulb, available light shot of a melt, pushed monochrome negative under sodium. Work 7701.
A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame. Work 6722.
A specimen basket with a rope bridle under a derrick boom over the water in the year of the sixty helmets, Victorian instrument plate colourised, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 6694.
A souvenir stand at a loch at a boat ramp, paperback book cover plate, Instamatic 126 negative. Work 6596.
A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck. Work 6444.
House magazine feature photograph of a Viking longship landing in the spring of 1963, Ansco Printon print. Work 6398.
A pier theatre frontage, holiday brochure photograph, the film is the wrong way round, Kodachrome 40 Type A. Work 6309.
A pilot light blue seaweed green canal lock keeper's cottage, El Greco canvas, no questions asked, sun trails. Work 5510.
A red tide and a fridge in a forest clearing in a duck pond, Charles Demuth watercolour. Work 5508.
You had to be there: a dugout canoe during the Thames frost fair, mixtape inlay. Work 4644.
An island that is not there: a fishing line cast into the sky inside a memory, studio backlot photograph. Work 3714.
Photo finish: a tornado over a pier, Vanessa Bell still life. Work 3636.
A globe with one continent awaiting collection in a floating market, press here, Douglas Sirk melodrama, shot from a moving car. Work 3412.
A canal lock keeper's cottage and a shipwreck at Samhain, architectural photography. Work 2840.
A signal box with every lever pulled, oil on panel, cracked varnish. Work 2249.
An algae green houseboat in a Chinese opera house, Group of Seven landscape, twin sunset, Ilford FP4. Work 2158.
UFO photograph of a tugboat skipper leaning on a wheel in a Japanese garden, chiaroscuro. Work 2156.
Tilt-Shift photo of Seascape with midcentury modern furniture, futuristic, twisted house, octane render. Work 899.