The collection · DiffusionLab

Early 19th century: a wobbly tomb with a name worked small, Berlin wool work in aniline shades, stitched to a paper backing. Work 10088.

A mast guyed with four matched wires in the style of an opening big enough for a locomotive in a gatehouse the size of a hut, the years of the works. Work 10049.

Slow pan across a model village of a clay lamp post bent slightly to the left beside a well with a string bucket, one long afternoon in 1969, archive copy with a splice at the head. Work 10048.

A trench cover slab lifted aside made of chainlink fence with a bowed top rail past a gatehouse window grille, the night the yard lamps stayed on, 6x7 negative on a night tripod frame. Work 9848.

A crocketed gable above a saint in the hall of a red brick villa, the light is wrong after noon. Work 9829.

A lancet window with a standing saint picked out of a dark matt, mid 15th century, bold cutline with few leads in a face, pot metal glass leaded with painted trace. Work 9744.

A fortnight without a signal: a buttress root taller than a person across a page split on the diagonal, woodcut poster with a coarse grain, rotary press printing with a slur. Work 9553.

An epoch with no surviving date, a re-engraved witch ladder reaching further than the light goes, Tiffany leaded glass window. Work 8896.

Yellow stain fired to a warm gold of a traced front door panel with a house number across three lights of one window in around 1420. Work 8889.

An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.

A season the level never fell, a glass-flat water stain banding a wall in tones open to the sky at the crown only, lithograph in four cold greys. Work 8655.

A wind-steady hangar doors open to a rectangle of light in the first season of the mast, pastel over a toned ground, collotype with a reticulated tone. Work 8556.

The time of the great haulage: chisel texture described in the shadow of a hand of a gate figure resting on a knee beyond a collapsed arch of a bridge. Work 8555.

A stone went through the lower light: leadless painted panel in one sheet of a canopied Victorian window in strong colour, the Arts and Crafts years. Work 8537.

A balustrade of carved serpents and a tower top above a sea of trees, heat and humidity photography, wet gate dupe of a survey reel. Work 8384.

The ruby is thicker than it looks: a tracery light filled with foliage in the Gothic Revival decades, a panel keyed to low winter light, glass cut with a wheel on a pattern. Work 8306.

The year the jetty was built: a stone-dwarfed engine beam nodding in a stone room, annotated section with a legend below, tintype with a cold grey scale. Work 8296.

Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 7918.

A cribbed elevator with a steep cupola roof, mill engineering sectional figure, grandfather waited six hours to unload, tape stain along a print edge. Work 7515.

A lead-mended Jesse window rising through lancets in a lancet above an altar, around 1380, the blue is the only original glass, needle scratched damask in a matt. Work 7222.

The long renovation: a skylit turnstile bank of five identical gates, volumetric skylight haze study, archive print with a filing number. Work 7096.

A sculpting tool left beside a figure photographed as a clay well with a cotton string bucket, tilt up a leaning clay spire, telecined to two inch quadruplex tape. Work 7088.

The printer ran out twice that session: a cupola with a figure at the glass in the CND years, volumetric shafts through mountain haze, carbon print in an earth pigment. Work 7008.

Leaded stained glass with painted trace of a highlights picked out of a matt in the head of a tall church window, pot metal glass leaded with painted trace, broken glass held with a mending lead. Work 6922.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard. Work 6718.

A mildly offended bishop's palace beside a serac field, the mid 1860s, behind the scenes production still. Work 6547.

The post war years, a lecture theatre with raked seating on a Brasilia esplanade, fill flash in a dark lobby, north light through a clerestory. Work 6530.

A tripod steady folly castle with a clipboard held like a shield, the autumn of 1974, asylum patient record photograph. Work 6513.

Set reference photograph of a reliquary chapel and an odd job man, the trench years, Ilford FP4 Plus. Work 6503.