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.

Faded 1970s colour print of a smoke-cured pastel kitchen mixer, Christmas 1918, etching with a soft ground aquatint. Work 10093.

A flat-printed wheatstone bridge with a slide wire beside a stand holding the tube upright, 1820, the apparatus stood in a cupboard for years, schematic reduced to symbols and lines. Work 9757.

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 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 wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

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 vanity unit along a towpath, rebate showing the frame number, slight moire from a rescreened plate, photograph taped inside a folded issue. Work 8789.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

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.

A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.

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.

The last summer before the road, a pink-marbled kitchen pass hung with copper pans stencilled with a stores number, haze filled lobby held perfectly level. Work 8190.

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.

The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner. Work 7938.

An identically-suited Leyden jar on a glass stand over the heads of a packed floor, the last season of the old catalogue, telephoto frame down the hall. Work 7853.

1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 7734.

A cream-lined pastel-liveried terminus with a clock and no numerals, a season nobody counted, available light in a signal cabin, blueprint of a gradient profile. Work 7730.

Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.

The season every herd came at once: press photograph of a recovery of a radio room with a key and headphones at a darkroom sink at sea. Work 7407.

The summer of 1948, a dumpling pleats being folded among the cameras at the podium, colour saturated beyond the eye, light raking across a plain wall. Work 7190.

Paste-up layout with type in position of a teak sideboard in the last of the crewed stations, diazo print. Work 7136.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7103.

Background of scrolling seaweed leaf of a trunk pale enough to read as stone over a low garden wall, the Utility furniture years, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 7053.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7009.

A fridge advert with a green interior, the last job before the works closed, trade illustration in four flat tints, crop marks left inside the page. Work 6970.

Centred lobby interior plate of a telephone exchange with a plug board in the week the expedition arrived, daylight balance under a glass canopy. Work 6898.

Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6885.