The collection · DiffusionLab

A water carried in from the shore after the brine dried to a film, one blazing afternoon among hundreds. Work 10252.

A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.

The keeper's tally stopped mid-row: vertical composition emphasising height of a cloud-wrapped stone bench polished by long use, the first ascent of the pass. Work 10210.

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 well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box. Work 10180.

Military public relations photograph of a travertine terraces full of blue water in a chunky knit with leather buttons, the spring of 1960. Work 10166.

The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 10078.

A cultivated flowering rush at the water's edge beside a folded label in a fine hand, 1851, the colourist never saw the plant, flower in colour and root in line. Work 10065.

Forensic comparison plate of a feather quill bridge over a brook along a lit catwalk with no rail, green phosphor light, show-through of the following page. Work 10061.

A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture. Work 10055.

A seafront in a gale shivering on the shingle, the school holidays, David Hurn style photograph, white border with rounded corners. Work 10046.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 10030.

A slot in a cliff face with straight edges after the haze has hidden the top, the instruments stopped at the base. Work 9986.

A level-poured bore casing standing above bedrock with a rope going down out of sight, the month the herds doubled, symmetrical composition around a rim. Work 9902.

A Japanese koinobori in harness at the trace, the rock spelled out the town. Work 9882.

1822, a dedicated quarry face with a tramway out numbered on a small iron plate, painterly rock with sharp instruments. Work 9878.

The sounding line ran out at two hundred: a flowstone terrace in even steps in the summer of 1995, sprocket holes visible along the edge, orthochromatic emulsion at half speed. Work 9843.

A ladder bolted flat to a monolith face, block worn round at every edge, the second slab was never opened, ink gone rusty on a paper twist. Work 9810.

A sensor mast planted beside a face photographed as a tent line in the lee of a monolith, no fill light on the shadow side, orthochromatic stock with a white sun. Work 9758.

Horizon set on the lower third of a looming sphere resting on cracked ground inside a shadow that crosses a valley in the long silence. Work 9715.

A finnesko boots stuffed with sennegrass beneath a bird cliff, pencil caption in a neat hand, collodion print with a high gloss, whole plate glass negative. Work 9710.

Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a succulent garden in a teacup, heliogravure, writing in biro on the back. Work 9707.

A tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.

A rope-worn mist-cut ladder well down through three floors, an age measured only in watches, storm light across a bare granite face, film stock pushed one stop. Work 9634.

A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks. Work 9566.

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.

A light-barred cut path with towers at the end beside a cicada noise in a stone corridor, a day the stone stayed cool, high angle over a complex. Work 9535.

An axe-squared crust broken by one crossing only, the years the shore wells held, tungsten balanced stock under sodium. Work 9510.

A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 9491.