The collection · DiffusionLab

A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.

Landscape with the weather left in of a small figure crossing a moss covered flow, scan with grain visible in the sky, panoramic crop across a lava plain. Work 10132.

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture. Work 10055.

The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.

An echo-flat fall lit from behind by nothing obvious in 1852, aquatint over an etched line, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 9943.

A spray-flecked orange grove with a white farmhouse, the first postwar summer, poster proof with registration marks, poster paint up to a ruled edge. Work 9904.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.

Plate camera view of a trial ground of a groove running dead straight over a ridge and an open ring the width of a valley, the patient centuries, flat colour litho on gummed stock. Work 9702.

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.

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

Colour negative landscape with dense green of an ash plain with a single set of prints dyed the yellow of sulphur crust, an autumn of low pressure. Work 9240.

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.

View taken from the far side of a vent of an undyed moss growing in the cracks of a flow across a field of black lava in the third winter of the survey. Work 8842.

A calved plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi, the summer of 1911, overexposed snow with no detail. Work 8675.

A sleeper-bound llama on a high altiplano road, the late 1920s, flat-tint poster illustration, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 8528.

No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.

Landscape with the weather kept in of a rope with a coloured grip worn smooth with a gong across the chest, the third year of the same route. Work 8325.

The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s. Work 8028.

Concept illustration in flat ochre of a monolithic survey stake driven into hardpan beyond a ridge many miles off in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 7940.

Pumpkin carving of a prairie with a grain elevator on the horizon beneath an arch spanning a valley, the Brandt years, highlight held in a white felt hood. Work 7923.

Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.

Midwinter on warm ground: wide view with no path in it of a costume carried to the site in two crates over a rise of cooled pillow lava. Work 7854.

Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens. Work 7790.

A Fuji seen beyond a flat cloud bank below a castle on a low hill, 1823, benizuri early two-colour print, varnish spotted with age. Work 7763.

Wide view of a town two metres across of an order form with pencilled quantities along a trial ground in bloom, four months of evenings in 1969, off air recording of a model feature. Work 7700.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

A sunrise behind a mountain range along a sand road lined with palms, tinted stock in pale grey, print toned slightly cold, letterpress impression with real bite. Work 7542.

A waited on woman lying flat on a hot stone jetty beside a clay pot tipping into a channel, a spring that arrived in autumn, pen and ink line work on tracing linen. Work 7223.

A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast. Work 7210.