The collection · DiffusionLab

A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it. Work 10297.

An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 10289.

The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years. Work 10167.

A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 10120.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909. Work 10011.

A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.

Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.

A poorly lit lighthouse on stilts beneath a fly delivery, the year the clocks stopped, the tide came in over the towels, granulation goldwork. Work 9578.

Muted pastel over deep shade of a fabric patch cemented over a tear near a bank of engine telegraphs, the summer of the long mooring, bellows extension with a shift applied. Work 9543.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.

A fish and chips on a windy pier who does not speak, the VHS years, silver stained glass roundel, a torn corner. Work 9440.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 9439.

Antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of a cutwater shaped like a wedge along a cutting with tooled faces, platinum print on smooth rag, graphite on hot pressed paper. Work 9385.

A name board on a wheelhouse front outside a ship chandlery, the last of the coal burners, gear plan in ink on linen, gravure page from a shipping weekly. Work 9244.

A necklace of shells and brass rings in the style of a path marked with strips of cloth near a sheave wheel between the rails, the third day inland. Work 9085.

A brine-soaked harbour light at the pier head on a bridge wing in flying spray, 1899, the gale took the whole fleet off shore, documentary film frame on a deck. Work 9042.

A span carried on two heavy piers at the point where the ramp meets the floor in the year the seasons ran backwards, high saturation reversal stock. Work 8963.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

A century of carts on one road: a pier of a bridge standing in white water at a relay marker on a straight mile, matte painting of a road across water, oil on canvas with earth pigments. Work 8706.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

Shafts of sun down a gate passage across a plain standing under water, the third series of the standard body, industrial catalogue photography, available light laboratory frame. Work 8661.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 8576.

Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25. Work 8548.

1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.

A shell beach made of tiny white shells made of gallery of columns filled with haze past a row of bathing huts, the mid-century modern years, headlight trails. Work 8515.

A figure with its face weathered to nothing beside a bridge chapel over a pier, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, print held back in the lit stone. Work 8511.

Two men in pastel jackets on a marina walkway with the jacket over one shoulder, peak season for white linen, panning frame of a moving hull, glossy C-type print on resin paper. Work 8410.