The collection · DiffusionLab

A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985. Work 10258.

A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 10112.

A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper. Work 9972.

A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned. Work 9938.

The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots. Work 9901.

A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.

A mask with a face behind it that is also a mask among drifting hull fragments in the Gothic Revival years, smoke-filled stage underground, Agfa Ultra 100. Work 9596.

The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.

Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands. Work 9469.

A man in a white suit skiing with a briefcase and a man in a silver ski suit toasting the valley, wire service colour photograph, Type C print on glossy paper. Work 9113.

A suited traveller with nothing behind but colour photographed as a traveller in a ribbed suit against turquoise, rendered with the highlights left open, internegative with a cyan bias. Work 9029.

A half-derelict vent stack standing clear of a crest, the age of the sealed suit, modeller's prototype reference photograph, slow emulsion with deep blacks. Work 9009.

A groom's head in two clashing greys, portrait with the hair printed as a mass, the key was on the wrong hook, rephotographed print losing its detail. Work 9002.

Fat slab type with a gold rim of a band name in swollen bubble letters in matching white suits, the gatefold years. Work 8885.

A flat-tinted bicycle advert with a doubled wheel with a sticker pasted over the error, the second impression, commercial art reduced for a small advert. Work 8876.

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.

A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.

A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print. Work 8685.

A tar-caulked photo booth sign gone cyan beside a bachelor uncle, a month that fell outside the year, fairground cut out portrait. Work 8656.

Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

Betamax tape still of a bog garden beside a rail of matching suits, a faded dye coupler stain, Kodak Ektar 1000. Work 8350.

A correction lifted out with tweezers photographed as a figure in a gown ribbed like a seed capsule, typographic specimen spread, handbill on thin newsprint. Work 8256.

A sunburst-gold bandleader in a bishop collar coat, the summer of 1974, Plus-X with two hard heads. Work 8164.

A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had. Work 8048.

Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black. Work 7726.

A moustached crowd of eight faces in one colourway, the week the pink ink arrived, print pinned through four corners. Work 7721.

A man in pastel loafers on a teak deck on a rooftop pool deck, pastel artwork fixed with a spray, print trimmed square with a guillotine, video frame from a broadcast master. Work 7703.

1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 7590.