The collection · DiffusionLab

An elevator operator with a slack jaw, the turn of the 1970s, comprehensive layout in marker, magenta out of register by a hair. Work 10077.

Long after the finders were forgotten, a seamless face reflecting a pale sky through haze breaking a lower edge, silver print with a blocked shadow, neutral density for a slow shutter. Work 9304.

The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks. Work 9253.

A figure standing on a plate that curves away, rigid one-point framing, the manifest listed a mass and nothing else, release print with dense blacks. Work 9236.

A number-drunk woman in a pinstripe skirt suit on a ladder in the age of the unmeasured distance, wide gauge frame with a smooth gradient, dot matrix printout on fanfold paper. Work 9177.

The second printing: tabloid strip panel in two inks of a dial face with a single needle against a solid process blue field. Work 9174.

An old paper going soft and grey with the face left uncovered, the second week of a fitting, flash-lit wall at night, colour negative printed on matte paper. Work 9119.

Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 8952.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.

Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.

A miner's head in flat black and white against a tiled underground wall, the season of the loud palette, screenprint head over a halftone photo, cheap process print on a folded sheet. Work 8162.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8152.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7749.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7687.

A slow-hauling ski instructor with a line of toddlers in a torn t-shirt held together with pins, the summer of 1971, 405 line telerecording frame. Work 7680.

Serial head print in eight variants of a cropped tight self portrait in flat pink, the season of the loud palette, moire over a rescreened source. Work 7673.

A man in a yellow badge grinning at a ticker in the style of a man in a tan jacket vaulting a rail beside a tangle of handset cords, a Monday in October. Work 7532.

Lifestyle feature on room service of a slippered woman putting a diamond in the soap dish, out of season and half the price, print mounted on board for a client. Work 7511.

Tour programme photograph of a couple squeezed together in a mirrored lift in the year the floor was rebuilt, airbrush lacquered to a high sheen. Work 7427.

A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line. Work 7302.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7274.

A man in mirrored shades lighting a long cigarette photographed as a cider label with the yellow off the edge, silkscreen poster in four flat inks, broken type where the plate scratched. Work 7236.

A blackwork coif with silver spangles made of shepherdess with a crook among worked slips of flowers, 1712, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 6950.

A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction. Work 6904.

A stood in a row observer with a magenta filter over the eyes, the era before the site was named, ceremonial stillness in the frame, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 6865.

70mm widescreen film still of a crew member with the helmet on and nobody near underneath a lit white walkway, the fourth crew rotation, sharp corner-to-corner resolution. Work 6847.

A spectacled fireman's face in blown-out orange under a hard studio lamp, the week the pink ink arrived, the second colourway was worse on purpose, flat head over a printed dot screen. Work 6838.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan. Work 6653.