The collection · DiffusionLab

The keeper's tally stopped mid-row: vertical composition emphasising height of a cloud-wrapped stone bench polished by long use, the first ascent of the pass. Work 10210.

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.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges after the haze has hidden the top, the instruments stopped at the base. Work 9986.

A mountain pass with a rope bridge made of rope bridge over a gorge of mist within a fan-shaped frame, the Bunsei years, printing from worn blocks. Work 9968.

A level-poured bore casing standing above bedrock with a rope going down out of sight, the month the herds doubled, symmetrical composition around a rim. Work 9902.

A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative. Work 9888.

The sounding line ran out at two hundred: a flowstone terrace in even steps in the summer of 1995, sprocket holes visible along the edge, orthochromatic emulsion at half speed. Work 9843.

A ladder bolted flat to a monolith face, block worn round at every edge, the second slab was never opened, ink gone rusty on a paper twist. Work 9810.

A sensor mast planted beside a face photographed as a tent line in the lee of a monolith, no fill light on the shadow side, orthochromatic stock with a white sun. Work 9758.

A finnesko boots stuffed with sennegrass beneath a bird cliff, pencil caption in a neat hand, collodion print with a high gloss, whole plate glass negative. Work 9710.

A tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.

The winter the chain went dark, watchpost wedged between two boulders along a ledge cut into a cliff, ground glass focused by hand, sepia toned bromide print. Work 9540.

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 beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.

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

The years of the standing fires: a cistern cut square into the summit rock along the top of a long curtain wall, rock face rendered in patient relief, half-tone at a fine ruling. Work 9297.

Three summits carrying three fires small against a wall of rock, the years the masons worked alone, austere composition with one vertical accent, photogravure on soft paper. Work 9238.

Telephoto stacking haze in bands of a haze-veiled drill rig at the foot of a monolith underneath an overhanging upper edge in a million days on. Work 9038.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

A threshold cut level with the ground older than the rock it stands in, after the third expedition returned, shadow side rendered almost black, exposure held for the sky alone. Work 8924.

A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.

An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in. Work 8808.

A valley floor split by an old flow within a padded envelope, insert with a hand-inked cover panel, blank tape from a three pack, single frame with no second take. Work 8797.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a half-ruined line of porters on a cliff ledge, an age measured only in watches, steel engraving with ruled skies. Work 8518.

Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side. Work 8312.

Concept illustration in flat ochre of a monolithic survey stake driven into hardpan beyond a ridge many miles off in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 7940.

Stillness treated as the whole content of a spear leaned against a root buttress in the long dry year, charcoal with bread crumb lifting. Work 7851.

A length of rope going nowhere on rock cracked in a wide circle, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag, drum scan with the dust left in, carbon print in a single earth pigment. Work 7797.