The collection · DiffusionLab

A tower crane over a rising frame in the style of a bus station with a concrete canopy behind a brise soleil, the year the estate opened. Work 10208.

Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.

A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930. Work 9990.

The subject was changed: hand painted bus livery of a Dralon chirashi bowl, glasnost. Work 9928.

The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.

A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house. Work 9719.

A depopulated archer loosing an arrow in a margin, the second era of the quarries, verdaccio flesh with a rose glaze, large format sheet film at f45. Work 9587.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

Muted pastel over deep shade of a fabric patch cemented over a tear near a bank of engine telegraphs, the summer of the long mooring, bellows extension with a shift applied. Work 9543.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9317.

Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.

A car crossing a line under a chequered flag beside a folded label in a fine hand in mid-century, contact print of a pressed frond, Ektacolor print on gloss paper. Work 8987.

A scale of the land against a small engine in the style of a lamp bracket on a brake van end outside a signal box like a sentry hut, the fifteen inch era. Work 8945.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

1883: a woman in a headwrap with a rum glass under a squall crossing the bay, pen and ink with mechanical ruling, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 8888.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.

A summer with the pan hard all through, a windrow of salt raked into a line on ground with no shadow on it, 65mm negative exposed for a white ground, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 8849.

A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold. Work 8846.

The Algerian War years: a tugboat nudging a liner within a turning ring station, flat shaded polygon render, bulb flash on a dark terrace. Work 8793.

A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.

Steel arch supports in a main road in a crush of men leaving the cage, the seam ran out in March. Work 8747.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.

Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page. Work 8533.

A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.