The collection · DiffusionLab

The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.

Periscope cross hairs on a freighter behind a lettered sound effect in a summer double number, process red and cyan figure study, rotary press blur at the panel edge. Work 10292.

An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 10289.

A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque. Work 10284.

A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration. Work 10282.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10279.

Held wide shot of a courtyard of a rose budded at the neck of a stock in one year after the road closed, exposed for the haze and not the stone. Work 10278.

A concrete stair tower and a deep overhang shading a verandah, large format survey photograph, Portra 160 negative. Work 10270.

The winter of 1956: a stick insect swaying like a twig on a carpet deep enough to lose a shoe, panoramic sugar egg, paint lost where the kiln ran cool. Work 10261.

Saddle between two peaks in a mosque courtyard, the spring of 1958, abattoir inspection photograph, hand-tinted in two soft washes. Work 10260.

A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985. Work 10258.

A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.

A flower decked hotel with a swim up bar in a courtyard with a fountain, the first jumbo season, flights from regional airports, airline poster in gouache. Work 10241.

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.

1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain. Work 10218.

A marble square worn hollow at a doorway too grand for the four guests in it, the last full season, haze filled lobby held perfectly level, chromolitho in pink mint and ochre. Work 10214.

A tower crane over a rising frame in the style of a bus station with a concrete canopy behind a brise soleil, the year the estate opened. Work 10208.

The first half of the century: a sleeve-protected labyrinth on a cathedral floor, pièce montée, airbrushed retouch. Work 10203.

Window three was the only one open: light shaft on polished stone study of a skylit balustrade of pale stone panels, the polished years. Work 10190.

A tiled fountain with a brass spout on an uncut sheet of six, the label was kept and the fruit eaten. Work 10185.

A far wall lost in interior mist made of line of figures facing each other beside a silt shelf against a base, the first crossing by boat, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 10181.

A surface seen from below as a bright disc photographed as a bubble trail reaching towards daylight, wide angle with the verticals kept true, sheet film in a sealed brass housing. Work 10172.

Two hundred years after the pour: a vent hood the size of a house beneath a walkway bridging two blocks, survey frame with the horizon level, photochemical print with a grey base. Work 10171.

A Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock. Work 10161.

Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper. Work 10157.

A rare hotel facade of dusty pink stucco onto a baize covered polishing table, 1824, still life of table silver on baize. Work 10150.

A relief panel of dancers, the hot months, heat and humidity photography, daylight stock under coloured air. Work 10136.

A mirror ball lowered over the risers on a terrace above the grid, Plus-X under hot lamps, Agfachrome 100 transparency, pushed stock with visible grain. Work 10131.

A thread frayed men's house on a wet tarmac, the Palaiologan years, Ghanaian hand painted film poster. Work 10115.

A stall built into a service alcove beside a conduit breathing steam, the long tenancy of the warm tunnels. Work 10106.