The collection · DiffusionLab

A catwalk around a dome base and a power line marching up a ridge on a catwalk at dusk, 1922, finding chart from a survey plate. Work 10294.

A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round. Work 10285.

A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones. Work 10273.

A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.

A water tower over the mill roofs photographed as a skip hoist climbing the furnace, heavy industry record photograph, ruling pen line on tracing cloth. Work 10138.

A ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.

A fire lookout tower near a beacon blinking in the heat, blueprint process on blue paper, matt wash worked with a badger brush, Fujichrome Provia 100F. Work 10107.

A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods. Work 10099.

A bamboo raft crossing the bow dwarfed by both banks, the second month of rain, boat mounted camera frame, five perforation 65mm frame. Work 10068.

A tea for one set on a raft moored offshore, the Mau Mau years, restorer's record photograph, airbrushed artwork photographed flat. Work 10064.

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

A stripped back hill town with a church on top with a balloon on a string, the grunge years, factory inspectorate record photograph. Work 10028.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 10010.

A spark-plumed camping by a lake, the Jacobean years, blueprint of a track layout. Work 9995.

A mountain pass with a rope bridge made of rope bridge over a gorge of mist within a fan-shaped frame, the Bunsei years, printing from worn blocks. Work 9968.

A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative. Work 9888.

A crowd cheering a car through the pool bend in the style of two drivers arguing beside a wrecked nose at the top of the hill in the town, the last flat twelve season. Work 9886.

A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 9873.

Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border. Work 9868.

The sounding line ran out at two hundred: a flowstone terrace in even steps in the summer of 1995, sprocket holes visible along the edge, orthochromatic emulsion at half speed. Work 9843.

A finnesko boots stuffed with sennegrass beneath a bird cliff, pencil caption in a neat hand, collodion print with a high gloss, whole plate glass negative. Work 9710.

Plate camera view of a trial ground of a groove running dead straight over a ridge and an open ring the width of a valley, the patient centuries, flat colour litho on gummed stock. Work 9702.

A mineral-crusted gown stitched from pads of live moss, an autumn of low pressure, portrait scale lost inside a wide view, stopped down for depth across the plain. Work 9692.

Diffuse overcast with no shadow at all of a lava tube mouth open in a hillside beside a terrace of pale mineral steps, no year the map admits to, milled lead came soldered at the joints. Work 9654.

A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion. Work 9647.

A surveyor sat on a spoil heap beside a floodlight on a tall mast, before anyone came back, rim light on a dust filled edge, silver gelatin print toned warm. Work 9639.

A depopulated archer loosing an arrow in a margin, the second era of the quarries, verdaccio flesh with a rose glaze, large format sheet film at f45. Work 9587.

Engineering line illustration of a pit village terraces up a bank in the war years, magnesium flash powder exposure. Work 9517.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.