The collection · DiffusionLab

A mirror ball lowered over the risers on a terrace above the grid, Plus-X under hot lamps, Agfachrome 100 transparency, pushed stock with visible grain. Work 10131.

A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative. Work 10076.

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

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 era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

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.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

A window wall of panes in matched frames and a pair of sconces either side of a door, figure backlit in a doorway of light, lantern slide bound in tape. Work 9205.

Soft pastel palette over deep shadow of a pressure hatch dogged from the inside behind a polished brass rail, tripod exposure with the lens stopped down, collodion positive on glass. Work 8991.

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

A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.

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.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

A Polish amber chandelier under corbels carrying a road out, blue and white porcelain plate, polarising filter on deep water. Work 8616.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.

A hall of cabinets vanishing into haze, the week of the inspection, hand tinted plate in mint and pink, colour negative printed slightly cool. Work 8146.

The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

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.

Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper. Work 7699.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

A tied crown of seakale in a pot, just after the war, colour proof with the register marks, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 7330.

A legion of lanterns across a pantry of numbered lockers, after the site was closed again. Work 7133.

1887: a valet sprinting past a row of headlamps against a wall of smoked glass, candid arrival frame with flash, whiteprint with sepia lines on cream. Work 7022.