The collection · DiffusionLab

Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors. Work 10257.

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

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone. Work 9855.

An earth dusted latex worm creature in three coils with one glass eye set slightly low, the second unit schedule of 1972, close up of a rubber jaw opening. Work 9688.

A clay woman in a poster paint apron with grease where a hand held it, the school term of 1965, animation cycle repeated four times, off air recording with a soft picture. Work 9627.

A relief globe of moulded plaster and a title block lettered by hand past a brass turnstile at a door, the spring the globes arrived, lit to read every sounding figure. Work 9593.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 9436.

A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.

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

A brass microscope on a mahogany plinth through an open bulkhead door in the year the lamps were fitted, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic. Work 9212.

A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic. Work 9184.

The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.

A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

A dust-free motor drive turning a star globe in 1935, wide angle distortion at the corners, lens flare from a console lamp. Work 9008.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

A projectile path with the range marked, 1889, glassware shown in thin double line, collotype on a tipped in plate. Work 8905.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968. Work 8568.

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.

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.

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.

The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour. Work 8195.

The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.

Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 7957.

A lord mayor in chains of office beside a ribbon spool in the year the power station opened, Agfa Record Rapid paper. Work 7874.

A control room of lit buttons against a flat cyan ground, comic art thickened for a coarse screen, tape marks along two edges. Work 7838.