The collection · DiffusionLab

Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape. Work 10195.

The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.

A steel-skinned comet tail over a dome in 1897, flash powder light in a dome, print faded to a warm brown. Work 9871.

Snapshot taken by accident of a Venus transit, pulled one stop, fixer stain. Work 9676.

An eye held open in a wash of orange made of hand reaching into a curtain of streaks within a field of colour and no object, the closing stretch of the crossing, reversal film with hard colour edges. Work 9428.

An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky. Work 9027.

A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner. Work 8831.

A water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner. Work 8731.

Miners gala souvenir print of a downcast shaft in cold air under a chimney by the boiler house, the last year of hand hewing, ferrotyped gloss print. Work 8730.

An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction. Work 8717.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8414.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

A wristbanded light well dropping sixty floors, the years after the tower fires, panned exposure at a sixtieth. Work 8300.

A sun the width of the whole frame, a day that started orange, two band colour composition, front element hazed by salt air. Work 8232.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

Animation cycle repeated four times of a Rexine paper effigy burned for ancestors, Easter 1979, polarised sky above pale ground. Work 7922.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.

A gold-flecked glitter settling over raised arms under a ball throwing white coins, the last good season, magazine nightlife spread. Work 7288.

An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate. Work 7195.

An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck. Work 7102.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration. Work 6677.