The collection · DiffusionLab

Commissioning record photograph of a candle tree, ring flash shadow, print mounted on black board. Work 10271.

Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.

Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.

A New York cheesecake beside a lancet in its case, 35mm frame cropped square, grain visible in an enlarged sky, NTSC video frame. Work 10200.

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.

Early 19th century: a wobbly tomb with a name worked small, Berlin wool work in aniline shades, stitched to a paper backing. Work 10088.

A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper. Work 10084.

Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on. Work 10042.

Head-on plate of a map wall of a ranging rods stacked in a matched pair and a chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat, a century into the drift, albumen print on thin paper. Work 9953.

An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 9940.

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.

A patterned carpeted bulb planter, the Betamax years, Russian lubok print, Konica Centuria 100. Work 9872.

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

A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view. Work 9738.

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

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.

A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame. Work 9416.

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 white-striped trunk painted with a white ring, a morning of low cloud, photograph of stillness held for a minute, frame with the film edge left visible. Work 9350.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

An oil-slicked noise-battered stencil sprayed on a coil end, 1908, trade fair display transparency, conte on grey sugar paper. Work 9310.

The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks. Work 9253.

A figure standing on a plate that curves away, rigid one-point framing, the manifest listed a mass and nothing else, release print with dense blacks. Work 9236.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9222.

The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22. Work 9181.

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 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 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 column-ranked balustrade of turned stone half in water at a hearth on a dry cornice, the years the hall was dry, lime crust described in fine texture. Work 9115.