The collection · DiffusionLab

Production illustration in flat whites of hexagon ridges running out of frame and a fire built on a slab of salt, the dry season on the pan, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 9946.

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

A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter. Work 8500.

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

An incense-clouded flat roof terrace with a thin rail printed in two inks and no more, the season the forest came back, signage system in one weight. Work 7875.

A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all. Work 7684.

A taotie, study of one silhouette lit from behind, the guard blew the whistle and laughed, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7633.

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.

The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years. Work 7546.

A fall lit from behind by nothing obvious beside a niche with a number over it, the stove smoke went up and vanished. Work 7478.

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

A soot-flecked flicker-lit laundry strung above the row, some October a lifetime from now, painterly matte over a live plate, anamorphic 35mm with heavy halation. Work 7003.

An electron gun by a stove in a cold hut in the decade the river stopped falling, zodiac roundel in gold and azure, tube camera bloom on a bright lamp. Work 6961.

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.

A caged balcony stacked with crates and a light well with dripping pipes on a wet street at street level, the second century of the smog, studio model photograph. Work 6606.

A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam. Work 6425.

A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind. Work 6317.

A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows. Work 5851.

A retouched incense burner in the spring of 1964, ORWO UT20, Diafine two bath development. Work 5772.

A cinematic medieval city and a lord of the ring type Tower cinematic lighting, Oskar Fischinger abstract film, flaming torches. Work 4921.

A domovoi behind a stove, Max Ernst frottage, olive drab, first person view. Work 4812.

A vermilion bulrush at a ticket barrier, isometric projection, dramatic rim light, wildfire smoke light. Work 4430.

A burnished barrel organ requiring two signatures, lobby still, barbecue coals. Work 4159.

A larger than life wildfire smoke over the sun in a hospital car park, chikankari, broken download, gunpowder smoke. Work 4133.

Nazca pottery of a barrier arm on Bonfire Night, porthole light. Work 4003.

A model volcano erupting on a kitchen table, flash, smoke. Work 3873.

A patchwork Christmas pudding on fire wearing a false moustache, trompe l'oeil mural, monochromatic blue. Work 3855.

Homesick for a place that burned: a bellows moments before the collision, Méliès trick film. Work 3840.

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 3793.

A stone gatepost, Aaron Douglas mural, raku, flaming torches. Work 3735.