The collection · DiffusionLab

The reconstruction years, a quarter circle swung from a corner inside a die-cut circle, north light through a clerestory, type impressed into soft paper. Work 10265.

Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors. Work 10257.

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

A glassy footlit brown long-eared bat, the new town years, duotone print, transparency cropped hard for a spread. Work 10219.

An etched glass screen behind a bar, illustrated brochure page, it opened three weeks late, eggshell lacquer finish. Work 10196.

Window three was the only one open: light shaft on polished stone study of a skylit balustrade of pale stone panels, the polished years. Work 10190.

Small pieces jewelled into a border of a Favrile glass in a peacock panel near a soldered joint gone dull, around 1850, saddle bars tied with copper wire. Work 10188.

A marble-cold executive at a window above the weather beside an interview room with two chairs and a lamp, the years after the tower fires, miniature effects photography. Work 10187.

The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.

The year the liner was launched: a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake beside a porthole window, press photograph from the period, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 10137.

A frost on the inside of an office window, harvest of 1928, fire insurance plan in ink and wash, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 10051.

Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 10022.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

A wolpertinger mounted in a hunting lodge at a bench of ruling pens in a row, onionskin second sheet, print with the sea tint slightly out, Fomapan R100 reversal. Work 9920.

A satellite dish on a tenement balcony and a champagne tower, screenprint, an M3 flashbulb. Work 9914.

A Streamline Moderne diner and a RAM stick, test shot for a catalogue, VHS head switching noise. Work 9912.

A cladding sheet dented at head height, pushed monochrome documentation frame, the hoist was rated well under it, two colour litho slightly off register. Work 9911.

An unadorned service tower rising above the roofs in the years of the sealed windows, archival inkjet on a smooth rag, contact print from a whole plate. Work 9910.

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.

Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.

Aerial perspective fading to pale grey of a shadow-vaulted turf maze, Christmas 1947, a colour print left in a sunny window. Work 9802.

A bright-cut tree of paradise with ruby fruit, the Arts and Crafts years, leaded stained glass with painted trace, reamy antique glass in a leaded light. Work 9789.

A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran. Work 9778.

A lancet window with a standing saint picked out of a dark matt, mid 15th century, bold cutline with few leads in a face, pot metal glass leaded with painted trace. Work 9744.

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.

Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film. Work 9723.

An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.

Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black. Work 9649.

A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion. Work 9647.