The collection · DiffusionLab

A hot violet balloon tiled in clashing primaries, an unnumbered proof run, gloss patch where the ink pooled. Work 10301.

An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 10289.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10288.

A dust storm covering a whole region, the third construction era, slow rotation held in one frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 10281.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10279.

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 reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.

The August number, a die-cut radio tower seen from beneath set flush left with no indent, low angle worm view of a tower. Work 10266.

A laid down on canvas magnetic variation lines across an ocean standing where the light ends, the second state of the plate, high contrast black and white. Work 10247.

A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.

A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.

Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877. Work 10227.

A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it. Work 10226.

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 latex cast creature eye painted on a bead with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the year the sequel was shot, matte line showing at a horizon. Work 10198.

1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator. Work 10194.

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 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.

A bagel with a cloud of cream cheese after the wind dropped to nothing, signal station photograph, cold-toned print in a blue grey. Work 10141.

A water tower over the mill roofs photographed as a skip hoist climbing the furnace, heavy industry record photograph, ruling pen line on tracing cloth. Work 10138.

Landscape with the weather left in of a small figure crossing a moss covered flow, scan with grain visible in the sky, panoramic crop across a lava plain. Work 10132.

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.

A fire lookout tower near a beacon blinking in the heat, blueprint process on blue paper, matt wash worked with a badger brush, Fujichrome Provia 100F. Work 10107.

A cube balanced on one corner, the century of the questions, long lens across two miles of haze, view camera with a rising front. Work 10097.

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.

Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept. Work 10085.

Ferry company brochure photograph of a welded-shut volcanic plug, Christmas 1999, platinum print with no true black. Work 10069.

A sunburst crowned architect's model of a stepped tower, the summer of 1937, Petzval swirl at the edges. Work 10059.

Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun. Work 10047.

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.