The collection · DiffusionLab

The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.

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

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

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 syringe raised against a lamp enlarged until the dots read as circles, the hundredth issue, newsprint illustration with open whites, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 10108.

A steamer trunk with brass corners and a ballroom stair with a nickel handrail above a black lacquer bar, the winter of 1933, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 10083.

A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative. Work 10076.

A bureaucratic note left on a kitchen table, the mid 1970s, available light night frame, Eastmancolor faded to magenta. Work 10040.

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 lasagne with too many layers made of umibozu within a decorated initial letter, the Ottoman classical age, glow of a rheostat lamp. Work 9936.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys. Work 9865.

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 dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.

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 pale mint cashier alone behind a lit window through a doorway with a numbered plate, the audit decade, the fountain had been dry for years, locked off interior cine frame. Work 9768.

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.

Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

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.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

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.

Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

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.