The collection · DiffusionLab

A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.

A popcorn spilling down a stair against a red dot gradient, dot gain closing up the shadows, squeegee pulled twice in one stroke, water stain up one side. Work 9906.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

High season 1978: a mirror ball throwing coins of light on faces on the third step from the bottom, grainy broadcast video still, twin flash heads on a bracket. Work 9134.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.

A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.

The second ascent: duralumin-framed two clerks in dusty pink jackets, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, letterpress plate with a number block. Work 8630.

A follow spot picking out a soloist beside a chrome staircase, export catalogue illustration, video smear off a chrome stair. Work 8627.

The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.

Bird's eye photograph of a stair of a marshaller lit from one side in orange aligned to a baseline grid, letterpress with a visible bite, star filter on a low sun. Work 8461.

A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition. Work 8450.

Ghost hunting infrared still of a nahual halfway between jaguar and man down a ramp of polished white, the age of the pager, Kodachrome 200. Work 8422.

After the site was left open: figure at a fraction of a percent of frame of a stair with no building over it after the haze has hidden the top. Work 8370.

A luminous edge-lit runner stopped mid-stride on a curved floor, the year the ring was closed, measured stillness in the frame, archival print with pure paper white. Work 8241.

A sunken court with a single stair out in a drug store room at the back, speed camera photograph, Kodachrome dense shadows. Work 8157.

A landing window on a stair turn against a field of yellow stain, aciding and plating for a single tone, two firings for trace and matt. Work 8097.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.

Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.

A wall sized funicular carriage stepped like a staircase with the circuit closed, 1820, exaggerated scale to make an effect plain. Work 7339.

Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.

The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair. Work 7198.

The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.

A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light. Work 6668.

Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall. Work 6601.

The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.

A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page. Work 6546.