The collection · DiffusionLab

Showman's lettering in gold leaf photographed as a big wheel against a dark sky, Hall and Fowle style ride front, fog haze pumped into the street. Work 10303.

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

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.

Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape. Work 10195.

A surface seen from below as a bright disc photographed as a bubble trail reaching towards daylight, wide angle with the verticals kept true, sheet film in a sealed brass housing. Work 10172.

A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.

A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 10147.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

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

Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge. Work 10074.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10017.

Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes. Work 9998.

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

A pontianak inside a lava lamp in the 1930s, diffusion filter over a flare. Work 9950.

Studio model photograph of a pyramid tower with lit setbacks in a night in the coming century, shallow depth at T2. Work 9948.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.

A figure between the slab and the sun, a late year of the survey, brutal contrast of black and pale, print struck to hold the sky white. Work 9836.

Geometric interior rendering of a floodlit from below crew member wiping a gloss white surface past an alcove lit cyan in the age of the lit floor. Work 9801.

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 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.

A sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait. Work 9742.

The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.

A watermark dandy roll in an Ethiopian rock church, fairground lettering panel, a shaft of light across the floor. Work 9701.

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 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.

An unblended flat-inked dentist's lamp swung down, the giant holiday number, figure reduced to outline and tint, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 9678.

A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 9632.

A covered hopper car under a loading spout photographed as a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit, lithographed plate of a comet, acetate negative with vinegar warp. Work 9626.