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.

A signboard giving a town elevation after the spur was lifted, the period the lights were never off, watercolour of a country siding, nitrate sheet film. Work 10191.

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 neon sign spelling one word under a marquee of missing letters, the screen was too coarse for the eyes. Work 10032.

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

An echo-flat fall lit from behind by nothing obvious in 1852, aquatint over an etched line, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 9943.

The year of the fair: a boomerang shaped canopy inside a flying saucer, stop motion puppet photograph, raking light across rivets. Work 9919.

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.

Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles. Work 9761.

A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows. Work 9618.

Available light reportage frame of a crate of mismatched connectors and a wrist held out for a reader, the age when signage outlived the state, black pro-mist over neon. Work 9611.

A thread-strung blackmailing German pickle ornament, the Expo 67 summer, mail order coupon page illustration, diffraction at f22. Work 9603.

High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer. Work 9494.

The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned. Work 9460.

A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam. Work 9455.

A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.

A self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative. Work 9363.

Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range. Work 9319.

A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot. Work 9314.

Myriorama landscape of a neon sign, vignette falling off at the corners, negative varnished after fixing. Work 9274.

A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds. Work 9234.

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.

Cyberpunk jungle airship. Work 9065.

Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture. Work 9036.

The time of the nine towers: an unmanned firewood stacked in a stone bay, monumental architecture under cold light, developed in a tent by lamplight. Work 8923.

A police car on its roof in the style of a vine snake throughout a mixdown done in one take, Christmas 1952. Work 8878.

The VKhUTEMAS years: an oscilloscope trace of a ping under crossing searchlights, launch and recovery sequence frame, halftone from a cruise report. Work 8860.

Three colour mezzotint of a half timbered house, heavy contrast under hard lamps, colour gone warm in the dupe. Work 8811.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 8588.