The collection · DiffusionLab

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 10232.

Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground. Work 10104.

A rain hitting a hot griddle opposite a shuttered pawn window, anamorphic 35mm blue streak flare, wet asphalt specular highlights, polariser deepening a pale sky. Work 9808.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9431.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9338.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9317.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9137.

Cyberpunk jungle airship. Work 8897.

Single frame move along a street of a gutter of split dowel along a roof, 16mm negative graded for a hobby film, black surround cropped to the town. Work 8824.

A miniature of a flooded street, tilt shift, reflections. Work 8773.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

The year the smog line rose again: model tower lit with fibre optics of a flyer climbing between two towers among aisles of indicator lights. Work 8158.

A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.

A tall-headed procession seen from a first floor window by a gas lamp over a loom, a cold morning with no wind, frontal composition with the line centred. Work 7297.

A reckless reporter with a flashbulb and a fedora in a wet March in 1951, flat proof before the black went down, creased spine with white breaks. Work 7292.

Poster reduced to circle and bar of a rooftop view straight down a street in the years of the new typography, folded in eight and opened flat. Work 6877.

The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter. Work 6629.

A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball. Work 6627.

Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object. Work 6617.

The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.

Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt. Work 6504.

Somebody cut it down to fit: a copper wash boiler in the Carnation Revolution, hand painted bus livery, water spots on the emulsion. Work 6371.

A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind. Work 6317.

Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities. Work 6261.

A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6191.

A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 6132.

A dripping gutter running with neon colour in the years of the long rain, practical neon as the only source, telephoto compression down a street. Work 6131.

A steam grate breathing into the street under scaffolding left up for years in some November a long way from now, strong edge light in rain. Work 6070.

Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street. Work 5999.