The collection · DiffusionLab

An etched glass screen behind a bar, illustrated brochure page, it opened three weeks late, eggshell lacquer finish. Work 10196.

1956: a gear-quiet glass case over a geared model, patent specification figure, Panatomic-X for fine detail. Work 10143.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10017.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

An escalator ribbon inside a glass flank along a corridor of identical doors, monolithic forms in flat light, sepia warmth in the highlights. Work 9866.

A pale mint cashier alone behind a lit window through a doorway with a numbered plate, the audit decade, the fountain had been dry for years, locked off interior cine frame. Work 9768.

Ornamental border struck from brass rule of a cold frame propped open with a brick in 1907, tint block printing short at one edge. Work 9432.

A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black. Work 9256.

A window wall of panes in matched frames and a pair of sconces either side of a door, figure backlit in a doorway of light, lantern slide bound in tape. Work 9205.

A lift bank with eight illuminated doors among a shift crossing the concourse in the decade the sky was sold in lots, large format transparency on a light box. Work 9156.

Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.

Opening night press photograph of a padded door with a small window and a zodiac inlay underfoot, 1937, filmstrip frame with sprocket edges. Work 8977.

Duotone photograph with flat type of a plywood-built glass curtain wall at a corner, the Basel school years, collotype with a soft continuous tone. Work 8904.

Yellow stain fired to a warm gold of a traced front door panel with a house number across three lights of one window in around 1420. Work 8889.

Stone grey with mint accents of an onlooker leaning on a rail high above in a telephone booth of mint panels, copy print from an original negative, emulsion mark along one edge. Work 8861.

1887: large format with tilt corrected verticals of a pair of matched viewports facing black water against a wall of coded pipework. Work 8440.

A display case holding one object across a diagonal band of blue, photogram with a soft penumbra, enlargement with a white keyline, silkscreen with a matte surface. Work 8332.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

A swimming pool changing room, damp light, tiles, echo. Work 8285.

An improvised festoon lighting along a wet wall in a winter deep in the coming century, photochemical print with a cyan bias, colour transparency with pastel walls. Work 8210.

A vapour-wreathed lift bank of eight numbered doors, a spring of long daylight, long lens at two hundred millimetres. Work 7954.

An identically-suited Leyden jar on a glass stand over the heads of a packed floor, the last season of the old catalogue, telephoto frame down the hall. Work 7853.

A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed. Work 7457.

A ticket office with the window shuttered, available light, worn counter. Work 7410.

A figure ringed by six shifting discs inside a tank of still shallow water, the year the lamps were replaced, full figure small inside a dark frame, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 7280.

A running light on a machine at midday, contact print from a large negative, the label outlived the object, verticals held true on ground glass. Work 7219.

1887: a valet sprinting past a row of headlamps against a wall of smoked glass, candid arrival frame with flash, whiteprint with sepia lines on cream. Work 7022.

Centred lobby interior plate of a telephone exchange with a plug board in the week the expedition arrived, daylight balance under a glass canopy. Work 6898.

A door of steel plate set in concrete in the style of a slab wall with a grid of deep windows without a tree anywhere in sight, the second era of the quarries. Work 6790.

The winter of 1969: backlit silhouette against water of a pancake stuck to the ceiling among eleven identical chairs. Work 6789.