The collection · DiffusionLab

A well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box. Work 10180.

A fire lookout tower near a beacon blinking in the heat, blueprint process on blue paper, matt wash worked with a badger brush, Fujichrome Provia 100F. Work 10107.

A fog in a pine forest, the winter of 1988, oleograph, rotogravure page in a hire leaflet. Work 10075.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A rod engine on a temporary logging grade photographed as a springboard notch in a standing stump, landscape painting of standing timber, exposure lost in the shadows. Work 9885.

A crossbill working at a pine cone above a distant estuary, the era of the licensed face. Work 9884.

The time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board. Work 9857.

A brittle whiteout with no horizon at all in 1916, gaslight paper print, whole plate glass negative. Work 9842.

Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 9663.

A headstone with an unreadable epitaph, wet plate collodion, moss. Work 9441.

A magenta-lit burnt patch of ground still smoking, the week of coloured smoke, night for night forest frame, internegative one generation down. Work 9386.

A still water reaching away into the dark, lithographic plate from an expedition, the water was the same level all year, gouache on a toned ground. Work 9382.

A tree just beginning to go over and caulk soles biting into a log, panoramic view camera photograph, duotone plate in brown and black. Work 9191.

Amateur cine frame of a log drive of a log chute cut into a hillside, foliage rendered near black, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 9151.

A plain of moss over old basalt under a very wide top margin, rosemaling panel, edge torn against a metal rule. Work 9122.

A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.

A hairy shutter of pale mint boards beside a wire line stepping up a slope, 1813, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8865.

The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.

Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 8580.

Epic scale aerial cinematography of an orange flare dropping through branches under a sky with no cloud, the closing 1960s, tungsten stock shot under flares. Work 8510.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.

A boot-worn spar tree guyed with cable in the year of the big burn, print faded to a pale brown, damp-stained print. Work 8401.

A bell tower above a cedar grove beyond a headland of black pine, the Bunsei years, nagasaki-e port print, beni pink faded to pale tan. Work 8339.

A canopy-dark smoke going flat at the treeline in a fortnight without a signal, magenta gel on a lamp, contact print from a location negative. Work 8191.

Still air with nothing moving of a pile of stones left at a crossing at the head of a stair between roots, an age counted in fallen giants, oil glazes over a gold underpainting. Work 8072.

Available light at high noon of a shadow-casting camp lights against a black mass, after the site was left open, daylight balanced stock at noon. Work 7635.

A figure tiny at the base of a tree made of figure smaller than the slab's shadow among a hundred marked trunks, the long assembly of experts, archival positive with dense greens. Work 7596.

Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7563.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.