The collection · DiffusionLab

A water carried in from the shore after the brine dried to a film, one blazing afternoon among hundreds. Work 10252.

The keeper's tally stopped mid-row: vertical composition emphasising height of a cloud-wrapped stone bench polished by long use, the first ascent of the pass. Work 10210.

The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.

A ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.

A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods. Work 10099.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges after the haze has hidden the top, the instruments stopped at the base. Work 9986.

A mountain pass with a rope bridge made of rope bridge over a gorge of mist within a fan-shaped frame, the Bunsei years, printing from worn blocks. Work 9968.

A level-poured bore casing standing above bedrock with a rope going down out of sight, the month the herds doubled, symmetrical composition around a rim. Work 9902.

A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 9873.

A landscape where the figure reads as a mark made of ridge of red scoria against grey sky under a sky of flat grey cloud, the third winter of the survey, polarised sky over black rock. Work 9815.

A ladder bolted flat to a monolith face, block worn round at every edge, the second slab was never opened, ink gone rusty on a paper twist. Work 9810.

A finnesko boots stuffed with sennegrass beneath a bird cliff, pencil caption in a neat hand, collodion print with a high gloss, whole plate glass negative. Work 9710.

A figure turned to face the vent against a wall of wet black rock in a summer with the sun behind cloud, landscape plate with a costumed subject, colour left exactly as the meter read. Work 9591.

The winter the chain went dark, watchpost wedged between two boulders along a ledge cut into a cliff, ground glass focused by hand, sepia toned bromide print. Work 9540.

An interlaced offshore wind farm beside a mushroom rock, the trench years, kappazuri stencil print. Work 9501.

The years of the standing fires: a cistern cut square into the summit rock along the top of a long curtain wall, rock face rendered in patient relief, half-tone at a fine ruling. Work 9297.

Telephoto stacking haze in bands of a haze-veiled drill rig at the foot of a monolith underneath an overhanging upper edge in a million days on. Work 9038.

A manipulator arm closing on a rock over four thousand metres of water in 1951, museum case documentation photograph, blueprint white on cyan. Work 8933.

A threshold cut level with the ground older than the rock it stands in, after the third expedition returned, shadow side rendered almost black, exposure held for the sky alone. Work 8924.

A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.

A valley floor split by an old flow within a padded envelope, insert with a hand-inked cover panel, blank tape from a three pack, single frame with no second take. Work 8797.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

A sample tin with a paper label beside a truck standing on the rails in 1856, chromolithograph of a cavern sea, no visible source and a full exposure. Work 8617.

A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a half-ruined line of porters on a cliff ledge, an age measured only in watches, steel engraving with ruled skies. Work 8518.

No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.

A coastline with soundings in fathoms, the last hand coloured issue, wave lines close along the shore, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8402.

A hang glider pilot running off a cliff, Works Progress Administration poster, nobody paid for the second printing, photoflood bulb. Work 8262.

A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it. Work 8258.

A loading dock cut into a cliff base beyond the last finished block, he argued it and still shook hands. Work 8105.