The collection · DiffusionLab

A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985. Work 10258.

A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy. Work 10117.

A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper. Work 9972.

A figure with three collars stacked upward, portrait with a tape measure left in, it stood up on its own afterwards, daylight balanced stock under soft boxes. Work 9859.

Banner print of eight repeats of a door key in nine flat squares across a proof with a cell missing, squeegee pulled unevenly down the left, screen clog leaving a pale patch. Work 9705.

The first season of the mast, a steward in a short white jacket in front of twelve men in matching tunics, letterpress with a tissue overlay, limelight aimed into a large space. Work 9615.

The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.

A man in a striped blazer carrying two toboggans outside the lift house door in 1990, hard flash with a polished reflector. Work 9557.

Solar eclipse plate of a self satisfied operator with a headset facing the lens against a screen lit evenly across in the turn of the 1940s. Work 9368.

An eye enormous in a field of turquoise behind a field of light with no edge, beam made visible without any haze, print holding detail only in the suit. Work 9286.

A man in a striped shirt on two handsets at once, stereo pair survey photograph, the record was left in the sun, contre jour. Work 9178.

A number-drunk woman in a pinstripe skirt suit on a ladder in the age of the unmeasured distance, wide gauge frame with a smooth gradient, dot matrix printout on fanfold paper. Work 9177.

The first year of the car phone, a man in a tailored coat holding two sets of keys beside a barrier at a members gate, silkscreen on mirror board, six by seven chrome on a light box. Work 9064.

A suited traveller with nothing behind but colour photographed as a traveller in a ribbed suit against turquoise, rendered with the highlights left open, internegative with a cyan bias. Work 9029.

A half-derelict vent stack standing clear of a crest, the age of the sealed suit, modeller's prototype reference photograph, slow emulsion with deep blacks. Work 9009.

A groom's head in two clashing greys, portrait with the hair printed as a mass, the key was on the wrong hook, rephotographed print losing its detail. Work 9002.

Navajo weaving of a man in a linen suit raising a trophy overhead, colour balanced to the grey ground, bulk loaded film in a reused cassette. Work 8971.

An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.

Flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks of a bus conductor's face in flat brown and a barber's face in two clashing inks, a sitting nobody was paid for, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 8910.

High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints. Work 8875.

An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.

A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.

Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

A silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape. Work 8376.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

Betamax tape still of a bog garden beside a rail of matching suits, a faded dye coupler stain, Kodak Ektar 1000. Work 8350.

A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate. Work 8345.

Neon sign design sketch of a man in a mirrored waistcoat clapping overhead, motion blur under a hard flash, HP5 developed hot. Work 8062.

A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had. Work 8048.