The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Muted pastel through green haze of a stone face looking up out of the sand in the season the lamps were caged, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 10254.

A water carried in from the shore after the brine dried to a film, one blazing afternoon among hundreds. Work 10252.

A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.

A gravel spit running into a pan four days from either shore, the short season of good crust, 70mm widescreen plate on a white pan, five perf stock pulled one stop. Work 10207.

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 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.

A sand-blasted Jordanian Petra guide, the turn of the millennium, Von Dutch style pinstriping, acrylic on a sand primed panel. Work 10125.

A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand. Work 10087.

Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge. Work 10074.

The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.

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.

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 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.

Survey photograph made from the air of a sign-lit marker post leaning in loose sand toward a horizon with nothing on it in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 9743.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9703.

Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9694.

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 tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare. Work 9656.

A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens. Work 9595.

Tableau on a shore facing the lens of a gravel-floored fall of water landing without wind above a skull the size of a table in the summer of the deep survey. Work 9546.

A doorway cut into the side of a dune, the second era of the rigs, frame built on one long diagonal, 8x10 negative on a heavy tripod. Work 9536.

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.

Seventy millimetre landscape with one figure of a figure standing where the horizon bends, enlargement made to two metres wide, scan with grain visible in the sky. Work 9466.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 9439.

Boundaries washed in pink and yellow of a dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, offset reprint on bright paper, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9406.

A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot. Work 9314.

A bridle hung with small worked discs down a slip face in loose grain, the years the dunes were unmapped, insurance survey photograph, low speed emulsion with fine grain. Work 9305.

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 bone-dry wind print rippling a brine sheet, the short season of good crust, aerial plate looking straight down on salt, tempera on a chalk white panel. Work 9155.