The collection · DiffusionLab

A whip stitched half height cottage at the back of the stage, the autumn term of 1971, archive transfer with the head splice kept. Work 10263.

A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail. Work 10118.

A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border. Work 10029.

The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade. Work 9959.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.

A crematorium chimney through a glass wall three storeys high, carbon transfer print, stone lithograph with a tint plate. Work 9364.

A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.

The last one on the roll: a rope ferry hut with a tin roof in the year the hospital opened, health and safety inspection photograph, fibre print with a warm black. Work 9088.

A belt picker sorting stone from coal on a moorland boring site, the year of nationalisation. Work 9087.

An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky. Work 9027.

An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference. Work 8806.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

Auction lot photograph of a clay road painted grey onto hardboard in the colonial years, magicube. Work 8495.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light. Work 8396.

Mist separating each range from the next of a tower window no wider than a hand, stone lithograph in four greys, print on matte paper with no gloss. Work 8239.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

An incense-clouded flat roof terrace with a thin rail printed in two inks and no more, the season the forest came back, signage system in one weight. Work 7875.

An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.

A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket. Work 7631.

A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.

A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.

A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam. Work 6425.

A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window. Work 6213.

The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower. Work 5972.

Foil blocked print of a martins at a mud nest under the eaves in the 1920s, Instamatic 126 cartridge. Work 5926.