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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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

A snow-blind tent floor of reindeer skin left standing for the next party, 1912, stores inventory sheet. Work 8899.

Gouache elevation of a facade of a candlewick-covered glacier tongue behind a pastel facade, the week the expedition arrived, pastel chalk on cream stock. Work 8898.

A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue. Work 8883.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

A summer with the pan hard all through, a windrow of salt raked into a line on ground with no shadow on it, 65mm negative exposed for a white ground, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 8849.

A calved plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi, the summer of 1911, overexposed snow with no detail. Work 8675.

Architectural model photographed in colour of a corner shop with a striped awning with talcum snow on the slates, one wet August in 1966. Work 8624.

A salt-ringed forked post holding a crossbeam behind a wall of stacked loads, the season every herd came at once, dark robes against pale limestone. Work 8593.

1905: a bear track beside a boot print by the light of a blubber lamp, reproduced diary page, snow glare flattening every form. Work 8509.

A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash. Work 8505.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.