The collection · DiffusionLab

A skeleton articulated on a brass rod, 1822, group of curators facing the lens, letterpress figure with a caption below. Work 10095.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

A sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait. Work 9742.

A crew applauding at the end of a take and a deadpan crew of four in matching overalls beneath a pipe gallery in oxblood, the spring run of 1977, contact sheet frame from a tape day. Work 9650.

The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.

Record illustration of a ruined interior of an open sky reflected in an inner court over a ratchet strap pulled tight, print made cool in the deep shadow, 16mm negative with a scratch. Work 9166.

Joke glasses with a nose inside a hangar with the doors open, 1-bit dither bitmap, stopped down for the whole court. Work 9148.

Textile pattern of gears and rules of a lattice-built window grid of a factory wall under a sawtooth roof in the 1925 exposition year. Work 9071.

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.

Cyberpunk jungle airship. Work 8900.

Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.

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

Main titles over a plaster ridge of a hard lit hardboard floor drilled in a grid, the second unit schedule of 1972, exposure step between two frames. Work 8677.

Scale contrast with an enormous vessel of a shelf of blank faces on stands and a security officer at a laboratory gate, two revisions past the first schematic, chrome reflection of a lit ceiling. Work 8615.

A shadow of a rail across concrete along a band of ribbon windows, white space treated as a shape, wood type printed over a flat ink. Work 8613.

Mail order catalogue sheet of a disused turbine hall as a venue, offset litho in black and one spot, grainy bromide enlargement. Work 8581.

A rushed toy catalogue robot printed twice in the quarter the press was overdue a service, broken type where the plate scratched, green where the flesh should be. Work 8561.

An interviewed heart trace on a small green screen inside a tank hall on a night shift, the second series of the upgraded eye, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8244.

A mesh diamond pattern in hard light among cage pallets of offcuts, blueprint of a yard boundary, colour transparency gone orange, daylight stock gone amber. Work 8227.

He hit the mark with the beat: a low rail padded in buttoned leather in the year the gantry was built, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, bounce flash off a white flat. Work 8093.

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

The years of the eight-year lifespan, a white corridor lit by ceiling strips under a green ring light, soft box over a steel bench, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 8055.

A winder drum with wound rope inside the winding engine house, 1911, mining engineering journal plate, two colour offset print. Work 7921.

A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 7917.

A mainframe room with the doors open, fluorescent light, tape reels. Work 7836.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

Rim lit steelwork study of a toe board along a walkway below a strobe strapped to a truss, toner blown photocopy on thin stock, ink on linen with stencilled titles. Work 7702.

A film loop flickering on a sheet and a second drummer on a steel oil barrel beside an empty machine plinth, the tour with no signed contract, machinery portrait under one lamp. Work 7691.

The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat. Work 7629.

Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.