The collection · DiffusionLab

A dust storm covering a whole region, the third construction era, slow rotation held in one frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 10281.

A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones. Work 10273.

A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.

A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it. Work 10226.

A figure standing perfectly upright in the dust and an observer facing the slab for the whole shift, long lens across a flat pit floor, wide gauge print with the black held flat. Work 10148.

Landscape with the weather left in of a small figure crossing a moss covered flow, scan with grain visible in the sky, panoramic crop across a lava plain. Work 10132.

A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods. Work 10099.

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture. Work 10055.

Sky heavy widescreen frame of a drum of diesel with a hand pump, bounced light off white canvas, long lens with heavy compression. Work 10034.

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

Composition with two thirds sky of a slab-sided survey stake driven into hardpan, the end of the mapping era, 70mm print struck for a large screen. Work 9985.

The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.

Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday. Work 9849.

A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow. Work 9820.

A shimmer-edged band of silver where the ground should be in a hundred years of the same weather, 4x5 transparency in full glare, 70mm print struck for a huge screen. Work 9803.

The opening years of the 1960s, a sun bleached Mesoamerican ball court printed over its own shadow, house clearance photograph. Work 9787.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze. Work 9685.

A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons. Work 9646.

An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith. Work 9544.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 9491.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

Colour negative landscape with dense green of an ash plain with a single set of prints dyed the yellow of sulphur crust, an autumn of low pressure. Work 9240.

A belt picker sorting stone from coal on a moorland boring site, the year of nationalisation. Work 9087.

A mission-belled flat horizon with one machine on it beside a smoke going flat in the rotor wash, the short season of clear mornings, banded sky colour treatment. Work 8980.

Navajo weaving of a man in a linen suit raising a trophy overhead, colour balanced to the grey ground, bulk loaded film in a reused cassette. Work 8971.

A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink. Work 8950.