The collection · DiffusionLab

A mirror ball lowered over the risers on a terrace above the grid, Plus-X under hot lamps, Agfachrome 100 transparency, pushed stock with visible grain. Work 10131.

The year the hull was silvered, a speaking tube with a whistle plug through an air lock into a smoking room, stereo pair on one mount, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9973.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

A star-speckled cooling fan behind a projector base, 1941, curvature of a dome pulled straight. Work 9604.

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.

It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.

Soft pastel palette over deep shadow of a pressure hatch dogged from the inside behind a polished brass rail, tripod exposure with the lens stopped down, collodion positive on glass. Work 8991.

A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

Ultra-wide frame with no horizon of a figure dissolved at the edges by glare in the age of the bright corridor, clean gradient held on a big negative. Work 8229.

The years of the eight-year lifespan, a white corridor lit by ceiling strips under a green ring light, soft box over a steel bench, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 8055.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

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.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

A tied crown of seakale in a pot, just after the war, colour proof with the register marks, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 7330.

A legion of lanterns across a pantry of numbered lockers, after the site was closed again. Work 7133.

An electron gun by a stove in a cold hut in the decade the river stopped falling, zodiac roundel in gold and azure, tube camera bloom on a bright lamp. Work 6961.

A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light. Work 6907.

A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera. Work 6474.

The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill. Work 6450.

An atomic symbol with three orbits at a kitchen sink under a window, the early 1940s. Work 6235.

Miniature room photograph of a viewing mound in a corridor of humming transformers, Fujicolor Reala 100, streetlight through a rainy window. Work 6160.

A push button range with a chrome hood, the atomic age, three colour pulp printing, hard flash on chrome. Work 6149.

The era of the retrofitted machine, a ceiling fan turning in a wet room against a wall of condensation, magenta shift in an old transparency, super eight home movie film. Work 5863.

A salt dome covered in sequins in a sewing room, exhibit B, action painting, ring flash. Work 5509.

A sunlit janitorial starfish as a sheriff, Ernst Haas colour photograph, the good one, lightning bug jar. Work 5236.

A damascus steel radar dish on a hat stand, de Kooning canvas, aquarium glow, open door light. Work 5012.

A milking parlour made of feathers at bedtime in a Victorian nursery, kodachrome, ad photography, pool. Work 4964.

Excavation record photograph of an orangery in the age of the telegraph, council estate grey. Work 4816.