The collection · DiffusionLab

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10293.

A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 10256.

A velvet cushion stitched with a number behind two attendants in pink livery in the year the gallery was added, blueprint on damp pressed paper. Work 10213.

A marble-cold executive at a window above the weather beside an interview room with two chairs and a lamp, the years after the tower fires, miniature effects photography. Work 10187.

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.

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 spark-lit audience lit from behind only in front of rolling scan lines, the week the plant stood empty, the front row went home half deaf, fanzine photo spread frame. Work 10105.

A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand. Work 10087.

An open-air pool at Saltdean and a sanatorium staircase down to the sea, Free Cinema style documentary frame, thumb over the corner of the lens. Work 10002.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

An over-exposed lawn chair sunk in the grass, the off season, chrome postcard, slight barrel distortion. Work 9981.

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

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9974.

A Streamline Moderne diner and a RAM stick, test shot for a catalogue, VHS head switching noise. Work 9912.

A gone green Ndebele painted house beside a peacock chair, the Rhodesian UDI years, process plate for a background. Work 9908.

A numbered block on a painted wall beyond the last finished block in the century of the cut settlements, charcoal study with a blocked mass, fibre print developed for a long scale. Work 9895.

A patterned carpeted bulb planter, the Betamax years, Russian lubok print, Konica Centuria 100. Work 9872.

A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.

Panel art with a caption box ruled off of a shoes left at the bottom of the stairs and a floating swimming pool, the spring of 1933, Lomo LC-A vignette. Work 9830.

Oasis palms beside a still pool above a fireplace in a lounge car in the 1937 season, poster reduced to five shapes, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 9762.

A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 9752.

Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.

A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass. Work 9672.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline. Work 9568.

A cable car summit station in the lobby by the jukebox in the spring of 1954, D-76 at 1 to 1. Work 9532.

Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin. Work 9516.

The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.