The collection · DiffusionLab

A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque. Work 10284.

An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.

A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt. Work 10153.

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

Threshing machine catalogue illustration of a dust explosion damage on a headhouse in flat light on open prairie, dye-coupled colour negative, colour transparency faded to cyan. Work 10094.

A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand. Work 10087.

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

The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.

The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.

Anamorphic frame of dense forest of a mud printed with bare feet below a roof of leaves, the third day inland, front element fogged with damp. Work 9924.

A gone green Ndebele painted house beside a peacock chair, the Rhodesian UDI years, process plate for a background. Work 9908.

A level-poured bore casing standing above bedrock with a rope going down out of sight, the month the herds doubled, symmetrical composition around a rim. Work 9902.

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.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey under a tin roof over a rum counter, the week the pink ink arrived. Work 9793.

A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 9752.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare. Work 9656.

The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.

The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.

1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.

A foreshortened four funnels raked in black and red in the late 1920s, halftone only in the sky, collotype plate with soft tone. Work 9340.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

The last one on the roll: a rope ferry hut with a tin roof in the year the hospital opened, health and safety inspection photograph, fibre print with a warm black. Work 9088.

A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper. Work 9075.

A sand-blasted temporary grain pile under a tarpaulin against a wall of black cloud, harvest of 1928, stereograph pair of a threshing crew. Work 9060.

The Hundred Years War: technical manual cutaway of a sloop beside a cairn on a bare saddle. Work 8957.