The collection · DiffusionLab

The line never stopped for anyone: a twin figures either side of a press in the third week of a shutdown, flat graphic figure in black, print spotted out with process white. Work 9821.

Poster paint illustration in flat colour of a group filling a convertible in the studio, Tri-X on a seamless backdrop, acrylic over an airbrushed ground. Work 9795.

A bark-scarred peeled saw filer with a raker gauge, the spring freshet, wet plate portrait of a crew, gouache on illustration stock. Work 9519.

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.

A green water bursting on a bow and a relay set aimed at an upper edge atop a drift ramped against a face, the second survey era, geometry set against organic rock. Work 9028.

Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky. Work 8952.

Swimwear catalogue page in flat light of a man in a cream fedora under a neon sign up against a support post, the winter of 1993, halftone of a flash print on newsprint. Work 8790.

A portfolio of ten heads, a garish apprentice's head in flat sand reduced to a black plate and a pink, portrait printed on stiff white board. Work 8780.

1989: a man serving conch fritters off a tin tray off a reef in ten feet of water, watch advertisement taken underwater, transparency scanned for a poster. Work 8725.

A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped. Work 8722.

Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 8650.

Flat colour illustration with a neon grid of a human roulette wheel and a swift screaming past a gable, the year the swimming baths opened, kinked film from a jammed transport. Work 8434.

A man in a coral shirt at a grill on a deck made of woman in a hot pink swimsuit on a high stand in a marina of gleaming hulls, an age counted in fallen giants, cross processed frame with a cyan shift. Work 8245.

An unbothered woman having her shoulder blotted by a friend, high season, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8069.

A stamped works mark on a billet end made of micrograph of a grain boundary beside a cooling bed of red bars, the summer of the big heat, videotape frame with head bars. Work 8007.

Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987. Work 7757.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7626.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.

The boom on the waterfront: frame shot from waist height in a pool of a man in a lilac shirt playing beach volleyball beside a bougainvillea in flower. Work 7350.

A figure ringed by six shifting discs inside a tank of still shallow water, the year the lamps were replaced, full figure small inside a dark frame, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 7280.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7208.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7168.

Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast. Work 6740.

Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3. Work 6505.

The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image. Work 6491.

A bathing costume drying on a wall, 1969, Italian beach club poster, orange fade of an old print. Work 6246.

The long summer of 1977, an inflatable ring floating alone under a floodlight, raking light across the deck, fingerprint on the emulsion. Work 6158.

The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer. Work 6106.

A liner alongside a quay and a swim up bar with stools in the water on the steps of a Balinese temple, 1958, publicity photograph for an airline. Work 6059.

A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper. Work 5994.