The collection · DiffusionLab

A griffin guarding a text block by a lectern in choir in late 11th century, lapis lazuli and vermilion flats, oak gall ink on ruled vellum. Work 10235.

A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.

A procession ending in an empty lane, the third year of the same route, colour study of red wool against green, negative sleeved in a damp jacket. Work 10168.

Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw. Work 10057.

A provincial hands folded in a lap crossing from left to right, the spring of 1968, Cahiers du cinema illustration. Work 9970.

Head-on plate of a map wall of a ranging rods stacked in a matched pair and a chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat, a century into the drift, albumen print on thin paper. Work 9953.

The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.

A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.

Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing. Work 9641.

A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras. Work 9461.

A double-ranked hood lined with felt to deaden sound beside a sash woven with copper thread, a cold morning with no wind, close study of hands on cold metal. Work 9372.

Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9307.

Brochure studio photograph of a man in a sheepskin coat by a gold turbo hatch in September 1984, duotone in black and silver. Work 9163.

A scholarship winning person cut in half by the edge of the frame, the winter of 1987, arpillera, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 9152.

Around 1470: a leaded panel of fruit in a leaded surround, Swiss armorial panel in enamels, flashed glass eaten back with acid. Work 9128.

Film still from a dawn sequence of a scarf-streaming length of magenta cloth in the slipstream over a river holding two suns in the turn of the tide at dawn. Work 9112.

High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints. Work 8875.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

An abraded lion rampant in a shield, mid 15th century, waxed up on a glass easel for painting. Work 8696.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.

An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman. Work 8437.

Souvenir programme illustration of a rack of costumes wheeled past a camera in the second season, Nikon with a 24mm on the floor. Work 8404.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 8357.