The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.

Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.

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.

The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.

A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 10120.

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

An unsigned box girder bridge deck in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the year before demolition, the mosaic was saved and the rest was not, wall label text. Work 10092.

A steamer trunk with brass corners and a ballroom stair with a nickel handrail above a black lacquer bar, the winter of 1933, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 10083.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

A chimney stack tapering to a rim on a pavilion's outside stair, registration out by two millimetres, photographed flat in even light, scalpel edge showing on a cut-out. Work 10000.

The year the hull was silvered, a speaking tube with a whistle plug through an air lock into a smoking room, stereo pair on one mount, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9973.

Silver gelatin contact print of a mugshot in profile at a table beside the bandstand, the mid 1940s, shaft of light through a blind. Work 9939.

Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen. Work 9926.

A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.

A satellite dish on a tenement balcony and a champagne tower, screenprint, an M3 flashbulb. Work 9914.

A popcorn spilling down a stair against a red dot gradient, dot gain closing up the shadows, squeegee pulled twice in one stroke, water stain up one side. Work 9906.

Engineer's schematic with figures of a hoist-lifted smoke pipe run along a truss at a signal showing red in the years of the six-level city. Work 9825.

Courtyard sunk two floors into rock on a roof deck with no railing, monochrome with a cold concrete grey, exposure set to hold the shutter marks. Work 9749.

The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.

A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house. Work 9719.

Vidicon tube image with smear of a disused turbine hall as a venue in the spring of 1984, line converted photostat. Work 9689.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.

A rope-worn mist-cut ladder well down through three floors, an age measured only in watches, storm light across a bare granite face, film stock pushed one stop. Work 9634.

A woman in a headscarf on a hotel roof terrace at a wheel stack behind a garage, the shift with no supervisor on, works handbook illustration, four colour halftone on gloss stock. Work 9539.

Single figure dwarfed by machinery of a semaphore signal atop a roof of turning ventilators, Christmas 1968, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9534.

High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer. Work 9494.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

A weather-greyed oil-soaked planking grain ticket book on a counter, the dust years, pen and ink illustration of a grain town, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 9446.