The collection · DiffusionLab

A summer with the sun behind cloud: vista with one bright garment in it of a crater lake flat and grey among low mounds of old tephra. Work 10290.

A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round. Work 10285.

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.

The keeper's tally stopped mid-row: vertical composition emphasising height of a cloud-wrapped stone bench polished by long use, the first ascent of the pass. Work 10210.

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.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

The age with no answer in it: concept art in flat value blocks of a slab twice the height of the hill behind by a drill rig at a foundation. Work 10004.

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

A mountain pass with a rope bridge made of rope bridge over a gorge of mist within a fan-shaped frame, the Bunsei years, printing from worn blocks. Work 9968.

A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative. Work 9888.

A crown of the Andes at Le Jardin in the Argentine Proceso, Ektachrome gone cyan. Work 9880.

Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border. Work 9868.

A nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses. Work 9826.

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 tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.

A pan floor glazed and faintly blue against the flank of a pale ridge, the ground read hotter than the air. Work 9609.

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

The years of the standing fires: a cistern cut square into the summit rock along the top of a long curtain wall, rock face rendered in patient relief, half-tone at a fine ruling. Work 9297.

Caulk-marked creek-washed cedar bolts floating down a stream, 1915, wool clothing advertisement illustration, album page with pencil captions. Work 9280.

Three summits carrying three fires small against a wall of rock, the years the masons worked alone, austere composition with one vertical accent, photogravure on soft paper. Work 9238.

The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

Gouache elevation of a facade of a candlewick-covered glacier tongue behind a pastel facade, the week the expedition arrived, pastel chalk on cream stock. Work 8898.

A mountain road in autumn, kodachrome, saturated, low sun. Work 8871.

A hairy shutter of pale mint boards beside a wire line stepping up a slope, 1813, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8865.

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 valley floor split by an old flow within a padded envelope, insert with a hand-inked cover panel, blank tape from a three pack, single frame with no second take. Work 8797.

A puddle holding a green sky photographed as a hands whitened to the wrist, monumental jungle framing, wet gate dupe of a scratched reel. Work 8761.

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 8580.