The collection · DiffusionLab

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

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

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 fog in a pine forest, the winter of 1988, oleograph, rotogravure page in a hire leaflet. Work 10075.

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 10010.

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.

A faintly amused locust swarm behind a row of dark trees, the Gupta period, medical teaching lantern slide. Work 9976.

A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative. Work 9888.

Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border. Work 9868.

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.

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 tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.

A road cut through a rock spur under sand drifted over paving, graduated filter across the far mist, oil on panel with thin glazes, slight halation around the lit edge. Work 9682.

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

A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens. Work 9595.

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 mouth of a shaft in open ground on a path approaching from one side, horizon set on the lower third, platinum print with no true black. Work 9396.

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.

The old survey of the way, a sand-drifted bridge wide enough for two colossal figures carved before the road was paved, section through a bridge pier. Work 9083.

Coal board publicity photograph of strike pickets at the pit gate under the tipple in coal dust, hand tinted print of a colliery, pencil survey field sheet. Work 9022.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

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

A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64. Work 8927.

A summer with the pan hard all through, a windrow of salt raked into a line on ground with no shadow on it, 65mm negative exposed for a white ground, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 8849.

A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold. Work 8846.

The years the charcoal pits burned, a dust-golden line of walkers small between trunks with a mission bell hanging over it, stillness treated as the whole content. Work 8841.

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.