The collection · DiffusionLab

Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.

Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

A pipe run bracketed along a curved wall in the style of a shoal of fish crossing a lit window over a manifold of matched wheels, 1858. Work 9949.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house. Work 9719.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

Overprinted colour out of register of an escalator ribbon inside a glass flank at the end of a very long table, the decade of the vertical franchise, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 9419.

Family album page of an escalator ascending into fog, photocopy trimmed with a guillotine blade, reversal stock in heavy humidity. Work 9037.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.

The age of hard shadow: frontal composition with the figure centred of a spoke tunnel running out to a rim deck beside a vent hissing steadily. Work 8857.

The Algerian War years: a tugboat nudging a liner within a turning ring station, flat shaded polygon render, bulb flash on a dark terrace. Work 8793.

A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure. Work 8268.

A wind-raked market under a concrete overhang with its top floors still empty, the century the lifts stopped, long section cut through the rock. Work 8078.

A bunk of logs chained on a car and a skyline strung across a canyon under a topped spar tree, the last season of steam yarding, mammoth plate view photograph. Work 7916.

A lookout posted at a tunnel mouth, the years of the six-level city, deep shadow with a lit doorway, ink line with grey wash. Work 7911.

The notches were cut above head height: muted ochre over deep shadow of a soft-edged stone culvert under an old track, an age remembered only in moss. Work 7688.

Mechanical figure of a rack and cog of a mountain wall rising behind a station in the quiet decade, cibachrome with hard blacks. Work 7243.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

An axle box with a brass cover and a horizon of ochre dust behind a train, matched uniform group in a row, photochrom plate in flat inks. Work 7110.

Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print. Work 6821.

An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.

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 inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines. Work 6635.

All lanes closed above the canal: an elevator with a brass gate in forty years from now, chiaroscuro painting, underexposed by one stop. Work 6363.

The VHS years: a bleach smelling sugar refinery, culvert inspection photograph, magnesium flash powder. Work 6333.

A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph. Work 6075.