The collection · DiffusionLab

The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.

Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel. Work 10082.

A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater. Work 9921.

Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint. Work 9860.

A griffin guarding a text block and a pelican piercing its own breast below a miniature in a frame, late 8th century, bestiary plate with a written gloss. Work 9261.

Two colour paper under one colour ink of a cross section of paper an inch thick in the age of the standing masses, heliogravure on a soft rag. Work 8895.

1898, a gold-tooled composition roller recast in a mould with a rule laid in the stick, chapel group portrait. Work 8838.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

Cartouche in a plain neoclassical frame of a contoured camp ground laid out in rows on a plate reissued with new railways in the first survey of the county. Work 8742.

Carte de visite portrait of a hand-tapped jelly wobbling on a silver plate beside a scale of leagues and one of miles in the year the works opened. Work 8674.

Illustrated portrait with no line at all of a squeegeed model's face reduced to three flats inside a stencilled oval in the last print of the series. Work 8557.

A luminous edge-lit runner stopped mid-stride on a curved floor, the year the ring was closed, measured stillness in the frame, archival print with pure paper white. Work 8241.

A crimplene nativity play with tea towel shepherds around a central medallion, the Silver Jubilee year, the lease had eleven centuries to run, panoramic map. Work 8023.

A crest-high long shadow of a rider at dusk, forty days out from the last market, large format view with a thin file in it, charcoal and chalk on toned paper. Work 8011.

Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 7918.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

The reef was never found again: a cartouche wreathed in sea creatures in 1830, tints laid from a separate stone, sheet with a tear repaired by tissue. Work 7662.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

Mosan colour like cloisonne enamel of a cadel with a face hidden in it holding a closed gospel book, late 10th century. Work 7289.

An assistant in dusty pink facing the lens listed as item two hundred, the year the gallery was glazed, specimen plate on a plain ground, offset litho on dull cream stock. Work 6892.

Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.

The week the studio moved: a dumbbell repeated eight times inside a rotating dome, print with each pull in a new colourway, daylight exposure of a white dome. Work 6701.

An etched glass screen behind a bar beside a porthole window, the boom years, inlaid marquetry panel, overcast light on white stucco. Work 6109.

Press photograph from the period of a porthole window in a curved white wall down from London, 1927. Work 6015.

Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift. Work 5869.

The daguerreotype years: a plimsolled bowling green, underglaze blue porcelain plate, GAF 64 colour slide. Work 5820.

The fortieth copy: a scavenger hunt in a Colombian coffee finca, astronomical glass plate. Work 5579.

An acorn splitting open, Monet series painting, funereal, candlelight. Work 5421.

Yoruba ere ibeji figure of a hoopoe in 1703, watery sun. Work 5160.

A renaissance portrait of a heron in a high collar, beautiful symmetrical face, 1990s, highly detailed. Work 5119.