The collection · DiffusionLab

Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.

The Northern Renaissance: a locked-up Shaker oval box, safety film still, a minute by streetlight. Work 9960.

A negative-printed table lamp with a nickel stem measured against a ruled scale, the Dessau years, composition of circle square triangle. Work 9847.

A shot list taped to a lamp stand near a haystack combed into ribs in the half term week of 1967, telecine transfer with warm colour, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 9798.

A chart table flanked by two lamps and a uniform cuff with three brass buttons on a spread chart held by four weights, 1828, shift lens interior of a long room. Work 9771.

A winter of modelling in 1962: a tissue glazed lifeboat davit against a green sea, daylight simulation from one hard lamp, rotogravure section printing. Work 9745.

Portrait on newsprint at speed of a press photograph reduced to a stencil, print photographed under a hard lamp, two colours out of register by a hair. Work 9737.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

A bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still. Work 9594.

A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.

The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp. Work 8590.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

The spring the globes arrived, a globe varnish gone faintly amber amid ranging rods in a stack, Kodachrome with dusty pink plaster, copperplate engraving on damp pressed paper. Work 8476.

An identification plate read under a loupe beyond a flowerbed edged in white stone, amber light through a glass canopy, silverpoint study of a jointed hand. Work 8374.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

Process red and cyan figure study of a dentist's lamp swung down in the year the dots got bigger, screenprint on stiff white board. Work 8277.

A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years. Work 8108.

Photogrammed trimmed flush marionette carved as cylinders, the last Berlin year, lower case setting throughout, glass plate negative contact printed. Work 8032.

It was over before the light changed: a procession photographed from the front in the hour the light came up grey, study of felt and metal together, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 7817.

An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge. Work 7812.

Logarithmic paper with unequal spacing of a copper light along a whole ridge above a strip of metal matting, Y2K, single lamp exposure with a reflector. Work 7799.

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 binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.