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An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 9940.

Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 9648.

The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.

Tableau on a shore facing the lens of a gravel-floored fall of water landing without wind above a skull the size of a table in the summer of the deep survey. Work 9546.

A crew member with a helmet tucked under an arm, arc light blowing out one corner, the suit was three sizes off and worn anyway, colour negative timed for the suit whites. Work 9459.

Canvas-suited bubbles rising in a slow column numbered on a wired brass tag, 1894, row of helmets in an even line. Work 9355.

Heroic labour poster illustration of a docketed hard hat with a tally number among reference numerals from 1 to 40 in 1872. Work 9229.

A helmeted head seen from below and a newspaper page spread on a rail, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black. Work 9207.

Two of the jars had the same number: cutaway of a helmet and breastplate of a tide-slowed fossil slab mounted on a velvet board, the week of the inspection. Work 9135.

The century of the built worlds: hard terminator across a hull of a helmet alone under a work lamp against the flank of a vast ring. Work 9072.

A traveller drifting with the head thrown back made of figure with light passing through the helmet in the shadow of the pylon, the long luminous interval, large plate scanned at full chroma. Work 9039.

Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of an attendant screwing a helmet down in the century the shimmer was mapped, carbro print with soft edges. Work 8986.

The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow. Work 8862.

An oppressive flyer circling a vertical face, the second era of the watchers, photoreal render with volumetric haze, polariser deepening a pale sky. Work 8737.

Beam of light through vented steam of a crew member with a mirrored dome helmet and a suited figure no taller than a hull rivet, the long cold assembly winter. Work 8441.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.

Trade test transmission frame of a plume-crested copper helmet with twelve bolts, the Egyptian golden age of cinema, silver gelatin print on warm paper. Work 7967.

Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp. Work 7841.

A column drum half buried in sand, 1864, cutaway of a helmet and breastplate, sepia wash on laid paper. Work 7713.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

An airless bolted-together suit stand with a helmet on the shelf, the last of the crewed stations, concept illustration in cold greys, lith print with a crushed shadow. Work 7086.

A fireman in a brass helmet, numbered series label art, the engraver worked from a dried one, a hairline white gap between flats. Work 7078.

A black figure on a sheet of pure white before the wind comes across the pan, the sled came back lighter than it went. Work 7045.

70mm widescreen film still of a crew member with the helmet on and nobody near underneath a lit white walkway, the fourth crew rotation, sharp corner-to-corner resolution. Work 6847.

Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet. Work 6802.

The year of the four colourways, a two-toned astronaut's head in flat silver grey with the hair printed as one flat mass, two-ink portrait with a black key. Work 6762.

A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print. Work 6691.

1953: a bubble helmeted helmet reflecting a red planet, exploded diagram in line, enamel paint with a hard sheen. Work 6012.

Instamatic snapshot of a Scrambler in full swing and a rain on a painted ride front, 1957, Kodak Tri-X. Work 5879.