The collection · DiffusionLab

A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.

It smelled of cigarettes: gouache illustration on board of a riveted man in mirrored sunglasses indoors, the disco backlash. Work 10156.

Head-on plate of a map wall of a ranging rods stacked in a matched pair and a chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat, a century into the drift, albumen print on thin paper. Work 9953.

Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen. Work 9926.

A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.

The first season of the mast, a steward in a short white jacket in front of twelve men in matching tunics, letterpress with a tissue overlay, limelight aimed into a large space. Work 9615.

The wedge years, a man in a leather blouson beside a turbo badge beside a doorman at a brass rail, print with the corner clipped for a file, monochrome print on glossy fibre paper. Work 9605.

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.

A double-ranked hood lined with felt to deaden sound beside a sash woven with copper thread, a cold morning with no wind, close study of hands on cold metal. Work 9372.

A belt of knotted wool cord beside a pipe venting into the wind in a decade of quiet ground, vignette from a deep lens hood. Work 9318.

A mottled black-headed gull in summer hood with the female behind it, 1755, high vantage over a vast compartment. Work 9259.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9222.

Dead symmetrical group composition of a delegate with a hood moulded to the head at a rope stretched between two posts, the year the floodlights were installed, single-pass print on gloss stock. Work 9220.

Brochure studio photograph of a man in a sheepskin coat by a gold turbo hatch in September 1984, duotone in black and silver. Work 9163.

A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

A soft-edged suited figure lit only along one edge, the seventh transit, 70mm print with the colour left screaming. Work 8600.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.

An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman. Work 8437.

A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print. Work 8364.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 8357.

A battery stall with terminals bare, a winter far down the next century, dense foreground occlusion, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 8254.

A man in a floor jacket with a torn sleeve on a raised step above the crowd in the open outcry years, gouache editorial illustration, marker artwork on layout paper. Work 8168.

A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin. Work 8115.

Skin patch samples under a lamp and a transparent poncho over a work suit alongside a cart heaped with greens, the first decade of the night economy, high budget genre film frame. Work 7884.

A man in a mint suit holding a marina key in the style of a woman in an electric pink jacket on a jet ski on a boardwalk lined with skaters, late in the eighties. Work 7781.

1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 7734.

A figure in a sulphur yellow cloak photographed as a padrón pepper, test pattern still, photographed flat under soft light. Work 7655.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7652.