The collection · DiffusionLab

A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation. Work 10296.

A summer with the sun behind cloud: vista with one bright garment in it of a crater lake flat and grey among low mounds of old tephra. Work 10290.

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.

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

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.

An iron ring set in a stone cover down forty steps into cool air in the age of the turning animal, extreme long shot of one well in a plain, polariser killing a glare off water. Work 10133.

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.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A dawn-lit cyan shadow under a treeline shadowed on the water below, the hour before sunrise, anamorphic frame of a low sun. Work 9982.

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

Monumental scale without any building of an amber-toned last light on the highest crown at the foot of an enormous bole in a century without a road. Work 9896.

Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight. Work 9853.

Vapour lit from a single side of a eudiometer over mercury in the period of continuous assembly, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 9852.

Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.

A nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses. Work 9826.

A landscape where the figure reads as a mark made of ridge of red scoria against grey sky under a sky of flat grey cloud, the third winter of the survey, polarised sky over black rock. Work 9815.

A cloud-piercing architect's section plate pinned to a wall along a boardwalk over hot ground, the years the sun reached only the crowns, low angle hero shot of a tower. Work 9772.

Desert approach road photograph of a granite-founded mercury basin under a transit down a long spectrograph well in the late 1890s. Work 9766.

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.

The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.

Snapshot taken by accident of a Venus transit, pulled one stop, fixer stain. Work 9676.

Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 9663.

The turn of the tide at dawn, a palm-lined group waiting at the edge of a clearing rimmed in orange along one edge, horizon high with water below. Work 9658.

A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare. Work 9656.

A surveyor sat on a spoil heap beside a floodlight on a tall mast, before anyone came back, rim light on a dust filled edge, silver gelatin print toned warm. Work 9639.

A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 9622.

A figure turned to face the vent against a wall of wet black rock in a summer with the sun behind cloud, landscape plate with a costumed subject, colour left exactly as the meter read. Work 9591.

Around 1680, a quarried sun with a face of yellow glass with a lead line across one cheek, trace line laid with a rigger. Work 9551.

Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 9463.

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.