The collection · DiffusionLab

A dust storm covering a whole region, the third construction era, slow rotation held in one frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 10281.

A laid down on canvas magnetic variation lines across an ocean standing where the light ends, the second state of the plate, high contrast black and white. Work 10247.

A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it. Work 10226.

Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun. Work 10047.

A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 10041.

Composition with two thirds sky of a slab-sided survey stake driven into hardpan, the end of the mapping era, 70mm print struck for a large screen. Work 9985.

A king penguin colony stretching to the horizon, Paubha painting, first house and second house, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 9963.

Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday. Work 9849.

A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow. Work 9820.

A shimmer-edged band of silver where the ground should be in a hundred years of the same weather, 4x5 transparency in full glare, 70mm print struck for a huge screen. Work 9803.

A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze. Work 9685.

A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons. Work 9646.

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 ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 9622.

Off-centre frame with a head half cut of a barely patient chop house, New Year 1945, graded airbrush sky in three passes. Work 9542.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 9491.

Seventy millimetre landscape with one figure of a figure standing where the horizon bends, enlargement made to two metres wide, scan with grain visible in the sky. Work 9466.

Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 9463.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

1937: television broadcast still of a dawn light rising behind a skyline through a condenser lens. Work 9278.

A sun image thrown onto a table, a cut-price reprint, tint-built illustration on cheap stock, water mark up one corner. Work 9190.

A mission-belled flat horizon with one machine on it beside a smoke going flat in the rotor wash, the short season of clear mornings, banded sky colour treatment. Work 8980.

Rendered as a plate from a site report of a capital of stone leaves half submerged, selenium toning for cold deep blacks, single sheet exposed at slack water. Work 8955.

A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink. Work 8950.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error. Work 8907.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

A survey team laying out a baseline across a plain of dark gravel, after the last team went home, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, digital plate finished at 6K. Work 8777.

Footprints filling in behind a walker, the century the stations closed, motor show stand photograph, 65mm negative with fine grain. Work 8762.