The collection · DiffusionLab

A flat-inked rocket lifting off a gantry, the newsstand years, flat ink panel with a benday sky, halftone dots turned into flat circles. Work 10275.

A relentless vent stack standing clear of a crest, after the last well was capped, rim light on a dust filled edge, exposure protected for the bright sky. Work 10204.

A surface seen from below as a bright disc photographed as a bubble trail reaching towards daylight, wide angle with the verticals kept true, sheet film in a sealed brass housing. Work 10172.

An aircraft settling onto a lit pad along a beam above the cloud line in some March a very long way ahead, tilt shift over a tower crown, window grid exposed for interior only. Work 10089.

Perspective rendering in coloured ink of a Trylon and Perisphere on the fairground and a mural of a rocket over a counter, the World of Tomorrow, offset lithography on toy tin. Work 10037.

The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.

A steel-skinned comet tail over a dome in 1897, flash powder light in a dome, print faded to a warm brown. Work 9871.

Low angle frame at wheel height of a torus section a kilometre across and a shuttle holding station off a rim, twenty generations in orbit, slow reversal film with high contrast. Work 9800.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9722.

The beacon had been moved: hyperreal render with dust in the air of a dust-scoured engine nacelle lying alone on the sand, the century of the crawlers. Work 9670.

A covered hopper car under a loading spout photographed as a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit, lithographed plate of a comet, acetate negative with vinegar warp. Work 9626.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 9168.

A colossal vast valve wheel taller than the man beside it, the survey years, commemorative brochure image, contact print from a survey negative. Work 9082.

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.

A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error. Work 8907.

Cyberpunk jungle airship. Work 8900.

An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference. Work 8806.

The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner. Work 8695.

A heat haze lifting off white ground underneath a sky taking two thirds of it, flare blooming off a wet film, print with the black held very deep, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 8635.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

The 1925 exposition year, a pair of searchlights crossing over a photograph printed coarse, heavy black ink filling the fibres, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 8265.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

A sea cock with a red painted handle, Victorian scientific engraving colourised, the manifold wheels were all set open, magnesium flash inside a steel space. Work 8034.

Visible air photography of a thin smoke trail in coloured air in the last dawn of the month, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 7907.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale. Work 7364.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate. Work 7195.