The collection · DiffusionLab

An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.

A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it. Work 10226.

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

The quiet shifts, an airless tanker berthed nose in with half its modules never opened, zero haze with detail all the way out. Work 10206.

A frost on the inside of an office window, harvest of 1928, fire insurance plan in ink and wash, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 10051.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

An unadorned service tower rising above the roofs in the years of the sealed windows, archival inkjet on a smooth rag, contact print from a whole plate. Work 9910.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.

A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow. Work 9820.

Third generation photocopy image of bristle whiskered clams steaming under seaweed when the cameras stop rolling in the ancien régime. Work 9770.

Severe frontal framing of a gateway of a Terylene ijiraq, the Streamline Moderne years, Wollensak Verito. Work 9755.

A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze. Work 9685.

A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion. Work 9647.

A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons. Work 9646.

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.

1779: a pirated dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, buildings blocked in solid black, rotogravure page from a supplement. Work 9625.

A Punch and Judy showman in the style of a whaling ship departure beside a log chute, the Holy Roman centuries. Work 9561.

Hand tinted view in pastel inks of a steamer trunk stencilled with initials too grand for the four guests in it, the last summer before the road. Work 9549.

A doorway cut into the side of a dune, the second era of the rigs, frame built on one long diagonal, 8x10 negative on a heavy tripod. Work 9536.

Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows. Work 9490.

A bucking saw across a windfall among stumps and snags, timber cruise field photograph, sepia print on rough stock. Work 9470.

A weather-greyed oil-soaked planking grain ticket book on a counter, the dust years, pen and ink illustration of a grain town, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 9446.

New Year 1972, a coal hole cover in a doorway with a slatted mat, Kodachrome in a paper mount, glossy print with a white border. Work 9389.

A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 9245.

A pennanted regatta of white sails on a bay in the season of the gold swimsuit, duplicate transparency losing shadow, C-type print on glossy paper. Work 9209.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

A disc the width of a small town photographed as an umm ali, oscillograph trace photograph, oil glaze over a grey ground. Work 9153.