The collection · DiffusionLab

A tobacco advert with a magenta ghost on a pinboard of overlapping notices, offset print with dot gain in the shadows, dot gain swallowing the shadow detail. Work 10287.

An oil-slick figure with the face left uncovered beside a bowl of oil on water, the year the foil came in, it took a week to drill them all, straight photograph with no retouch at all. Work 10158.

Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10100.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9984.

Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4. Work 9930.

A fishwife's head in sour pink and an apprentice's head in flat sand, banner portrait in two loud inks, tape marks down two sides. Work 9856.

A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.

A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead. Work 9669.

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.

A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.

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 movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9405.

Dead symmetrical group composition of a delegate with a hood moulded to the head at a rope stretched between two posts, the year the floodlights were installed, single-pass print on gloss stock. Work 9220.

A breathing filter on a cheek, underwater colour transparency, the log was in pencil because of the wet, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 8981.

A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.

A commission paid in advance: bee-hived twins' heads in mirrored colourways, glamour portrait flattened to flat colour, photostat blow-up of a press photograph. Work 8700.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.

Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.

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

A row of six identical heads inside a lift of mirrored panels, high contrast portrait in two tones, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 8273.

A doleful welding mask flipped up in the last summer of the 1920s, photostat with reversed tone, brochure page on gloss art stock. Work 8070.

Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 7995.

A figure in profile with a raised arm, overprint of red over black halftone, the press was hand-fed, uncoated stock with a rough tooth. Work 7934.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7815.

The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 7698.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7687.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7638.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7525.