The collection · DiffusionLab

The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome. Work 10234.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 10232.

A courier riding a straight road at dawn, the long flood age, monumental emptiness on a paved road, orthochromatic plate with a deep filter. Work 10231.

Panned photograph of a car at speed of a mechanic carrying a starter motor and a drink, five colour press sheet, dye retouching in the harbour blue. Work 10220.

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.

A signboard giving a town elevation after the spur was lifted, the period the lights were never off, watercolour of a country siding, nitrate sheet film. Work 10191.

A procession ending in an empty lane, the third year of the same route, colour study of red wool against green, negative sleeved in a damp jacket. Work 10168.

A chain-wrapped carcass of a burnt-out sedan in the decade the roads went quiet, red filter darkening a grey sky, silver gelatin print on fibre paper. Work 10163.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10159.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground. Work 10104.

Stopped down to hold the far end of a balsa built painted tarmac with a white centre line within a town two metres across in the demo before the demo. Work 10103.

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.

A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop. Work 10090.

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

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.

1997: a sunstruck last frame of a roll, hotel brochure photograph with cars, monochrome print at postcard size. Work 10062.

A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 10041.

A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 10010.

Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.

A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate. Work 9931.

The subject was changed: hand painted bus livery of a Dralon chirashi bowl, glasnost. Work 9928.

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 town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 9814.

A rain hitting a hot griddle opposite a shuttered pawn window, anamorphic 35mm blue streak flare, wet asphalt specular highlights, polariser deepening a pale sky. Work 9808.

A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969. Work 9736.

The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.

A road cut through a rock spur under sand drifted over paving, graduated filter across the far mist, oil on panel with thin glazes, slight halation around the lit edge. Work 9682.

A damp smelling solar car beside a Tunisian chechia maker, the Berlin Wall years, cigarette silk. Work 9671.

A suited traveller against a wall of pure cyan at the edge of a widening white bar, the years without a horizon. Work 9620.