The collection · DiffusionLab

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 diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 10147.

A stall built into a service alcove beside a conduit breathing steam, the long tenancy of the warm tunnels. Work 10106.

A pontianak inside a lava lamp in the 1930s, diffusion filter over a flare. Work 9950.

A pipe run bracketed along a curved wall in the style of a shoal of fish crossing a lit window over a manifold of matched wheels, 1858. Work 9949.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday. Work 9849.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

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 sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait. Work 9742.

The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.

Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film. Work 9723.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 9632.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 9607.

A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

A scale beam in an elevator office in the style of a man-lift rope in an elevator shaft in flat light on open prairie, the dust years. Work 9196.

Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.

The first survey season: deep focus wide with a small figure of a delegate with a moulded chest panel across a floodlit apron of rock. Work 9069.

The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city. Work 8975.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

The age of hard shadow: frontal composition with the figure centred of a spoke tunnel running out to a rim deck beside a vent hissing steadily. Work 8857.

A fluorescent-lit audience lit from behind only, the big bang year, cut and paste flyer artwork, stencil sprayed through thin steel. Work 8843.

Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.

A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.