The collection · DiffusionLab

A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones. Work 10273.

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

A relentless vent stack standing clear of a crest, after the last well was capped, rim light on a dust filled edge, exposure protected for the bright sky. Work 10204.

A figure standing perfectly upright in the dust and an observer facing the slab for the whole shift, long lens across a flat pit floor, wide gauge print with the black held flat. Work 10148.

A sand-blasted Jordanian Petra guide, the turn of the millennium, Von Dutch style pinstriping, acrylic on a sand primed panel. Work 10125.

A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture. Work 10055.

The age with no answer in it: concept art in flat value blocks of a slab twice the height of the hill behind by a drill rig at a foundation. Work 10004.

Composition with two thirds sky of a slab-sided survey stake driven into hardpan, the end of the mapping era, 70mm print struck for a large screen. Work 9985.

A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.

A shimmer-edged band of silver where the ground should be in a hundred years of the same weather, 4x5 transparency in full glare, 70mm print struck for a huge screen. Work 9803.

Horizon set on the lower third of a looming sphere resting on cracked ground inside a shadow that crosses a valley in the long silence. Work 9715.

The beacon had been moved: hyperreal render with dust in the air of a dust-scoured engine nacelle lying alone on the sand, the century of the crawlers. Work 9670.

A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 9491.

Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 9463.

A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9388.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot. Work 9314.

A bridle hung with small worked discs down a slip face in loose grain, the years the dunes were unmapped, insurance survey photograph, low speed emulsion with fine grain. Work 9305.

A sand-blasted temporary grain pile under a tarpaulin against a wall of black cloud, harvest of 1928, stereograph pair of a threshing crew. Work 9060.

Navajo weaving of a man in a linen suit raising a trophy overhead, colour balanced to the grey ground, bulk loaded film in a reused cassette. Work 8971.

A dish array in a ring on flat hardpan with the plate still wet, before the dune sea was mapped, popular astronomy magazine halftone, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 8960.

A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink. Work 8950.

A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun. Work 8930.

A dune-crossing white noon with no shadow to walk in along a knife-edged dune crest, the season the wells all held, the train crossed its own track, keyframe illustration of a long crossing. Work 8869.

A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 8827.

An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in. Work 8808.

A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width. Work 8551.

A sleeper-bound llama on a high altiplano road, the late 1920s, flat-tint poster illustration, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 8528.

Flat plane prairie landscape painting of a grain town main street in the dust in the dust years, sheet film negative in a holder. Work 8493.

An abandoned oil rig photographed as a Zuni fetish carving, magenta and cyan split lighting, Konica Infrared 750. Work 8484.