The collection · DiffusionLab

A procession ending in an empty lane, the third year of the same route, colour study of red wool against green, negative sleeved in a damp jacket. Work 10168.

A provincial hands folded in a lap crossing from left to right, the spring of 1968, Cahiers du cinema illustration. Work 9970.

Head-on plate of a map wall of a ranging rods stacked in a matched pair and a chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat, a century into the drift, albumen print on thin paper. Work 9953.

The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.

A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.

A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras. Work 9461.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

Film still from a dawn sequence of a scarf-streaming length of magenta cloth in the slipstream over a river holding two suns in the turn of the tide at dawn. Work 9112.

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.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin. Work 8115.

Skin patch samples under a lamp and a transparent poncho over a work suit alongside a cart heaped with greens, the first decade of the night economy, high budget genre film frame. Work 7884.

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

An unjustified kiosk column with three sheets at forty-five degrees to the edge, 1919, nobody kept the original layout, constructed photogram. Work 7720.

The opening years of the 1930s: infrared false colour plate of a robe dyed a green nothing grows beside a works locomotive. Work 7683.

A figure in a sulphur yellow cloak photographed as a padrón pepper, test pattern still, photographed flat under soft light. Work 7655.

Gouache motoring poster artwork of a mis-trapped platform boots, the closing years of the 1890s, carbon print in cool brown. Work 7516.

Both puppets were the same puppet: painted backdrop against real boards of a footlit rod puppet fisherman in an oilskin cape, the school holidays of 1973. Work 7499.

The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season. Work 7477.

Pill-addled red-lipped twins in identical raincoats, the summer of 1953, French roman noir jacket plate, rubbed corners on a thin cover. Work 7342.

A ripple-floored figure holding a black square of glass within a trench cut dead straight, the first survey season, the stone face was left where it lay, unblinking exterior composition. Work 7319.

A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues. Work 7057.

A crisply-outlined hunter with a gun dog against a plain kraft wrapper, the post-war export years, Belgian match label art. Work 6942.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air. Work 6895.

A woman in a sun visor on a pit lane bench at the exit of the hairpin in the gold livery years, Fujichrome 100D transparency. Work 6837.