The collection · DiffusionLab

Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.

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

Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge. Work 10074.

The Northern Renaissance: a locked-up Shaker oval box, safety film still, a minute by streetlight. Work 9960.

A pontianak inside a lava lamp in the 1930s, diffusion filter over a flare. Work 9950.

A negative-printed table lamp with a nickel stem measured against a ruled scale, the Dessau years, composition of circle square triangle. Work 9847.

A shot list taped to a lamp stand near a haystack combed into ribs in the half term week of 1967, telecine transfer with warm colour, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 9798.

A chart table flanked by two lamps and a uniform cuff with three brass buttons on a spread chart held by four weights, 1828, shift lens interior of a long room. Work 9771.

A winter of modelling in 1962: a tissue glazed lifeboat davit against a green sea, daylight simulation from one hard lamp, rotogravure section printing. Work 9745.

Portrait on newsprint at speed of a press photograph reduced to a stencil, print photographed under a hard lamp, two colours out of register by a hair. Work 9737.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

An unblended flat-inked dentist's lamp swung down, the giant holiday number, figure reduced to outline and tint, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 9678.

A bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still. Work 9594.

A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.

A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead. Work 9425.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black. Work 9256.

A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate. Work 8798.

A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.

The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp. Work 8590.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

The spring the globes arrived, a globe varnish gone faintly amber amid ranging rods in a stack, Kodachrome with dusty pink plaster, copperplate engraving on damp pressed paper. Work 8476.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.