The collection · DiffusionLab

A stall built into a service alcove beside a conduit breathing steam, the long tenancy of the warm tunnels. Work 10106.

A pipe run bracketed along a curved wall in the style of a shoal of fish crossing a lit window over a manifold of matched wheels, 1858. Work 9949.

Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight. Work 9853.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

A light-barred cut path with towers at the end beside a cicada noise in a stone corridor, a day the stone stayed cool, high angle over a complex. Work 9535.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

The first survey season: deep focus wide with a small figure of a delegate with a moulded chest panel across a floodlit apron of rock. Work 9069.

A shadow of a ring across its own spoke photographed as a dry bay with a hull opened up, press agency shot of a press hall, no fill and no reflector at all. Work 8976.

The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city. Work 8975.

The age of hard shadow: frontal composition with the figure centred of a spoke tunnel running out to a rim deck beside a vent hissing steadily. Work 8857.

A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light. Work 8740.

The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.

A firewood stack under a root overhang beside a stream running clear on stone, sixteen pages on eight sheets, silver gelatin on a matte surface, telephoto at four hundred millimetres. Work 8283.

A petal-strewn well shaft ringed with cut stone, the last season of clearing, bloom off a lit stone edge. Work 8280.

A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure. Work 8268.

The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.

Gouache with gum on the wing coverts of an arch wide enough for four abreast at a junction stone cut with three hands, the years the tunnel was cut, paper gone grey along a fold. Work 8173.

A loading dock cut into a cliff base beyond the last finished block, he argued it and still shook hands. Work 8105.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

A lookout posted at a tunnel mouth, the years of the six-level city, deep shadow with a lit doorway, ink line with grey wash. Work 7911.

A half a hull in full dark and a chart screen in a dim compartment through an open airlock hatch, the end of the building programme, keyframe illustration of a docking. Work 7793.

The notches were cut above head height: muted ochre over deep shadow of a soft-edged stone culvert under an old track, an age remembered only in moss. Work 7688.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

A pylon of battered stone flanking a way over a culvert under a raised road, an age remembered by its kerbs. Work 7334.

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 block standing alone on open hardpan and a lift shaft with its doors removed at the edge of a deep road cut, the fourth construction decade, static frame with a symmetrical mass. Work 7076.

A canvas-walled hole in the floe rimmed with slush behind a snow block wall, the winter of 1915, glass plate exposure in the cold. Work 7026.

An age measured in miles of paving, a kerb-worn road vanishing into a pale wall of mist larger than anything else in the valley, dust-lit interior of a stone passage. Work 7004.