The collection · DiffusionLab

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 saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail. Work 10118.

Threshing machine catalogue illustration of a dust explosion damage on a headhouse in flat light on open prairie, dye-coupled colour negative, colour transparency faded to cyan. Work 10094.

A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust. Work 9987.

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.

An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours. Work 9845.

A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969. Work 9736.

A caravan park in the off season, kodachrome, flat light. Work 9711.

A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944. Work 9602.

An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith. Work 9544.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

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.

The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 9168.

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.

Frame shot from a second machine of a grass-beaten matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the week of low sun, duotone in grey and pink. Work 8956.

A rail-worn Australian cattle dog in the Achaemenid years, Polaroid 779, late golden light. Work 8935.

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 engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.

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.

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.

The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.

A reseau grid printed on a plate across a dry valley in 1891, red safelight glow on a bench. Work 8172.

Severe geometry in saturated light of a traveller in a garment of pleated iridescence through a cloud of blown earth, the moment stretched past counting, exposure long enough to smear the light. Work 7951.

Cross-hatched shadow under leaves of a stagecoach on a dusty grade, graded airbrush sky in three passes, ink starvation in a large solid area. Work 7930.

Photoreal render with volumetric haze of a shadow of a structure crossing a camp in the decade the instruments agreed, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 7877.

A file of porters under a white sun and a rotor blade planted upright as a marker, rotor plate taken over a dune field, acrylic on a primed hardboard panel. Work 7696.

A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.

The dust years, a boot pit at the bottom of the leg under a portable auger, rotogravure section page, exposure set for the highlights. Work 7340.

Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920. Work 7048.