The collection · DiffusionLab

A relentless vent stack standing clear of a crest, after the last well was capped, rim light on a dust filled edge, exposure protected for the bright sky. Work 10204.

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.

The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.

A steel-skinned comet tail over a dome in 1897, flash powder light in a dome, print faded to a warm brown. Work 9871.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9722.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9694.

The beacon had been moved: hyperreal render with dust in the air of a dust-scoured engine nacelle lying alone on the sand, the century of the crawlers. Work 9670.

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.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 9168.

A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error. Work 8907.

A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 8827.

The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner. Work 8695.

A heat haze lifting off white ground underneath a sky taking two thirds of it, flare blooming off a wet film, print with the black held very deep, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 8635.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

The 1925 exposition year, a pair of searchlights crossing over a photograph printed coarse, heavy black ink filling the fibres, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 8265.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

A rocket nosecone in a scrapyard and a pelota court, botanical type specimen photograph, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 6971.

A caged balcony stacked with crates and a light well with dripping pipes on a wet street at street level, the second century of the smog, studio model photograph. Work 6606.

A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6580.

The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed. Work 6522.

Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped. Work 6456.

A finned rocket on a launch gantry wired to a control panel, the early 1940s, municipal record photograph, Panatomic-X fine grain. Work 6353.

The road ends here: a windsock on a bent mast in the last decade before the collapse, exploded view diagram, long exposure over a night pan. Work 6224.

A sleepless manhole venting white steam at the bottom of a light well, the first winter of the curfew, neo-noir film still. Work 5809.

A pipeline running across the pan at the edge of a dust storm, a century from now, editorial illustration, telephoto compression of a convoy. Work 5781.

A mural of a rocket over a counter on a formica counter in 1939, lit from below like a stage. Work 5691.

A glacier, publicity still, shut, oscilloscope glow. Work 5467.