The collection · DiffusionLab

A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

A catwalk around a dome base and a power line marching up a ridge on a catwalk at dusk, 1922, finding chart from a survey plate. Work 10294.

Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.

A stall built into a service alcove beside a conduit breathing steam, the long tenancy of the warm tunnels. Work 10106.

A steamer trunk with brass corners and a ballroom stair with a nickel handrail above a black lacquer bar, the winter of 1933, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 10083.

The Bauhaus years: Kütahya tile of a shell keep before a wall the colour of wet clay. Work 10008.

A chimney stack tapering to a rim on a pavilion's outside stair, registration out by two millimetres, photographed flat in even light, scalpel edge showing on a cut-out. Work 10000.

A popcorn spilling down a stair against a red dot gradient, dot gain closing up the shadows, squeegee pulled twice in one stroke, water stain up one side. Work 9906.

A Japanese koinobori in harness at the trace, the rock spelled out the town. Work 9882.

A trench cover slab lifted aside made of chainlink fence with a bowed top rail past a gatehouse window grille, the night the yard lamps stayed on, 6x7 negative on a night tripod frame. Work 9848.

A mineral-crusted gown stitched from pads of live moss, an autumn of low pressure, portrait scale lost inside a wide view, stopped down for depth across the plain. Work 9692.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

Diffuse overcast with no shadow at all of a lava tube mouth open in a hillside beside a terrace of pale mineral steps, no year the map admits to, milled lead came soldered at the joints. Work 9654.

The hot half of the year: a jetty of grey planks on bamboo legs under a leaning wall of jungle, still frame held too long, optical printer dupe. Work 9645.

A rope-worn mist-cut ladder well down through three floors, an age measured only in watches, storm light across a bare granite face, film stock pushed one stop. Work 9634.

One point perspective down a colonnade of a rock-cut figure alone on a vast concrete stair, the far end of the first expansion, drum scan off a large transparency. Work 9613.

The month of the flower offerings: location cinematography in ruins of a path through forest to a stone door in green haze along a colonnade. Work 9597.

A light-barred cut path with towers at the end beside a cicada noise in a stone corridor, a day the stone stayed cool, high angle over a complex. Work 9535.

A shade-thrown bridge deck crossing a dry gorge beside a buttress rank holding a terrace back, after the outposts were joined, science fiction production illustration. Work 9444.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

A raw-edged jungle guide in the closing years of the 1940s, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, Fujichrome Velvia 100. Work 9302.

A party stopped in a perfect row on the stairs of a walk-up, a week of flat white weather, painted wrapper for a hardback, flat proof before the black went down. Work 9294.

Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.

A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.

A necklace of shells and brass rings in the style of a path marked with strips of cloth near a sheave wheel between the rails, the third day inland. Work 9085.

Family album page of an escalator ascending into fog, photocopy trimmed with a guillotine blade, reversal stock in heavy humidity. Work 9037.

A wind-raked rock-cut gallery running the length of a block, the second building programme, chiaroscuro on a blank wall, shadow placed on the second zone. Work 8948.

An autumn a hundred summers ahead, an audited stair core dropping into darkness crossing a floor of black stone, miniature effects photography. Work 8939.

A blast wall angled across an approach atop a parapet above a long drop in before the upper terraces were cut, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock. Work 8914.