The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

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 frost on the inside of an office window, harvest of 1928, fire insurance plan in ink and wash, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 10051.

The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.

Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit. Work 9952.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

The time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board. Work 9857.

A long-tailed duck in winter, 1804, brush and ink in the Japanese manner, silverfish grazing at one corner. Work 9788.

It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A robin on a snowy fence post, engraved initial letter with foliage, she knew all the answers, letterpress on a rag paper sheet. Work 9727.

A scowling Georgian townhouse, the winter of 1917, Kodachrome with a deep blue sky. Work 9717.

The engine was named after a wife: axial composition down a trench of a four-storey mixing bin heaped with cotton, the second decade of the site. Work 9617.

A hooded rider halted at a tower gate near the last tower above the ice, the reign of the last keeper. Work 9616.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

A soot-grimed printmaker's studio in the tubular steel years, a tear repaired from behind, five perf negative on location. Work 9572.

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.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

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.

Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

A frost giant blowing on a window atop a plinth battered by wind, chromogenic print with a warm cast, fast film pushed two stops, colour left as the meter read it. Work 9262.

A coal-dusted boy building a snowman beside a surveyor with a hanging compass, twelfth impression of 1935, chromolithograph plate of the 1930s. Work 9214.

The winter after the crop failed: country weekly photograph of an elevator shadow long across a grid road at the end of an elevator spur. Work 9202.

The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.

A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.

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 canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.

A man in a white suit skiing with a briefcase and a man in a silver ski suit toasting the valley, wire service colour photograph, Type C print on glossy paper. Work 9113.