The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys. Work 9865.

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.

An earth dusted latex worm creature in three coils with one glass eye set slightly low, the second unit schedule of 1972, close up of a rubber jaw opening. Work 9688.

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 tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.

A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

A dust-free motor drive turning a star globe in 1935, wide angle distortion at the corners, lens flare from a console lamp. Work 9008.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.

The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour. Work 8195.

A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years. Work 8108.

An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge. Work 7812.

A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.

A rock hammer beside a basalt pillow behind a bank of instrument lamps in 1947, bottom camera exposure, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 7630.

A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance. Work 7534.

Background of scrolling seaweed leaf of a trunk pale enough to read as stone over a low garden wall, the Utility furniture years, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 7053.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure. Work 6906.

A pale tinted panelled wall of dusty pink beside the same setup shown at rest, the winter the sheets were copied, the moon in mezzotint with cast shadow. Work 6858.

A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble. Work 6743.

Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear. Work 6412.

A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus. Work 6069.

Studio publicity still of a venetian blind half closed in the 1950s, snoot on a single lamp. Work 5848.