The collection · DiffusionLab

Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground. Work 10104.

An age measured in miles of paving: lithograph in three stone greys of a lap of a seated figure used as a shelter at a relay marker on a straight mile. Work 9796.

The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.

A fish and chips on a windy pier who does not speak, the VHS years, silver stained glass roundel, a torn corner. Work 9440.

A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds. Work 9234.

A column of walkers with bells tied to the wrist, a season with no feast in it, procession treated as a single object, print with a cool cast in the shadows. Work 9193.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

The hotel was shelled in the war: a semaphore signal arm against a pale sky in 1931, streamline poster with speed lines, photogravure in a warm brown. Work 8673.

Long lens study through fog of a figure holding a struck bar still ringing, wide crop with a high flat horizon, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 8672.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.

The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.

Test footage of a walk cycle of a lamp warmed plasticine doctor with a wire stethoscope, a wet Tuesday in 1966, lab scratch across a bright area. Work 8199.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.

1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin. Work 7768.

A tank hall with twelve columns lit, instructional manual illustration, the model was not on the standard list, deep black against a white wall. Work 7470.

A thumb-worn atlas and axis articulated, the Carnaby Street years, veiling glare across the shadow side. Work 7199.

A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore. Work 7014.

A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.

A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red. Work 6712.

A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount. Work 6569.

A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light. Work 6328.

A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6191.

A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight. Work 6182.

Pen and ink illustration of a lettering painted on frosted glass under a street lamp in the fog, eight to one lighting ratio, haze in a hard backlight. Work 6104.

An unanswered road that goes into fog, 1963, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6002.

An olive drab weed-choked lamppost, Clarice Beckett tonal painting, we used to have one, cheese grater shadows. Work 5627.