The collection · DiffusionLab

A fairground ride operator, the silent film era, bogolanfini mud cloth, linocut pulled on thin paper. Work 10176.

The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.

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

An auctioneer's face in chrome orange made of meteorite slab in a lobby case inside a photo booth curtain, a run of six heads in six inks, beam of light made visible by haze. Work 9477.

The prize was given out twice: a quill and inkwell in the Art Nouveau years, bird's eye view lithograph, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 9357.

A number-drunk woman in a pinstripe skirt suit on a ladder in the age of the unmeasured distance, wide gauge frame with a smooth gradient, dot matrix printout on fanfold paper. Work 9177.

A scholarship winning person cut in half by the edge of the frame, the winter of 1987, arpillera, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 9152.

A groom's head in two clashing greys, portrait with the hair printed as a mass, the key was on the wrong hook, rephotographed print losing its detail. Work 9002.

The 1938 edition, girls in a ring holding hands in the margin beside a poem, paper browned at the fore edge, a name written inside the front cover. Work 8984.

An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.

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

A tar-caulked photo booth sign gone cyan beside a bachelor uncle, a month that fell outside the year, fairground cut out portrait. Work 8656.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

Double-printed page slightly out of register of a face pressed to the copier glass and a contact sheet copied at wrong contrast, the winter of cheap copies, thin newsprint copied and folded. Work 8039.

Reproduction with the paper grain in it of a halftone face on an insert gone to mud posted for three dollars and a letter, the last dub off the master. Work 7953.

A figure whose costume fills the whole frame on a groundsheet of pale canvas, full frame with no crop at all, print pressed flat under glass, large format colour transparency. Work 7810.

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.

An ochre-lit crate stencilled with a number and nothing else beside a figure with the whole frame going magenta, the era of the saturated light, blueprint elevation with a scale bar. Work 6915.

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.

A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 6814.

A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan. Work 6653.

A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare. Work 6237.

Fluxus printed multiple of an artist's book on a table and a black and white print on a white wall, 1984, taped to the wall with masking tape. Work 6028.

Film poster in one colour of a stone jetty in flat light, Kodak Double-X negative, cue mark in the corner. Work 5815.

A stamped date on a blank page on a Scottish moor, 1968, certificate in a plain frame, contact printed at full size. Work 5763.

A parcel containing a storm in the style of a receipt for the ocean, tintype sheen. Work 5554.

A jumble-sale diploma in a frame made of wet sand, dress pattern catalogue, extension tubes. Work 5356.

A wind-up penguin in the style of a stealth bomber, enamel sign chips. Work 4926.

A pious cotton mill half buried in sand, skeleton wall chart, a chance of melancholy, loose framing. Work 4819.

A sea parted for a bus and an atoll inside a violin case, Chinese silk embroidery. Work 4444.