The collection · DiffusionLab

A mottled black-headed gull in summer hood with the female behind it, 1755, high vantage over a vast compartment. Work 9259.

A breathing filter on a cheek, underwater colour transparency, the log was in pencil because of the wet, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 8981.

Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 8952.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.

The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 7698.

Serial head print in eight variants of a cropped tight self portrait in flat pink, the season of the loud palette, moire over a rescreened source. Work 7673.

The age when every face had a number: a flyer half peeled by a thumbnail against a corrugated panel, banner portrait in two loud inks, panel stamped while the ink was wet. Work 7391.

A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare. Work 7345.

The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud. Work 7149.

Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface. Work 7013.

A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction. Work 6904.

A vet's head in flat moss and a typist's face in high contrast, flat head study in clashing inks, ink bleeding under a hand-cut edge. Work 6835.

Direct mail flyer of a dot to dot puzzle on a banknote, video call grid. Work 5109.

Vintage rusty droid head movie poster, kodachrome, grain, cold light. Work 4012.

Award winning ad photography for tacos, beautiful symmetrical face, 1970s, cinematic composition. Work 972.