The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit. Work 9952.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

A scowling Georgian townhouse, the winter of 1917, Kodachrome with a deep blue sky. Work 9717.

A hooded rider halted at a tower gate near the last tower above the ice, the reign of the last keeper. Work 9616.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

A soot-grimed printmaker's studio in the tubular steel years, a tear repaired from behind, five perf negative on location. Work 9572.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

A frost giant blowing on a window atop a plinth battered by wind, chromogenic print with a warm cast, fast film pushed two stops, colour left as the meter read it. Work 9262.

The winter after the crop failed: country weekly photograph of an elevator shadow long across a grid road at the end of an elevator spur. Work 9202.

A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue. Work 8883.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

Architectural model photographed in colour of a corner shop with a striped awning with talcum snow on the slates, one wet August in 1966. Work 8624.

A salt-ringed forked post holding a crossbeam behind a wall of stacked loads, the season every herd came at once, dark robes against pale limestone. Work 8593.

1905: a bear track beside a boot print by the light of a blubber lamp, reproduced diary page, snow glare flattening every form. Work 8509.

Ski school notice in flat inks of a wooden stave church in deep snow and a coral island with a single palm, the late 1920s, magenta misregister by a hair. Work 8327.

A heat column rising with no cloud above made of walker stopped with its back to the sun above a band of shivering air, the far end of a long afternoon, 4x5 transparency in full glare. Work 8204.

Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.

A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.

Deep focus down a row of coupes of a whooper swan bugling on the ice in low mist lying between trunks, the counterculture years, condensation on cold glass. Work 8053.

A grey-going staple row along a telephone pole peeled back to the layer beneath, the winter the paste froze, photograph of a photocopy on a wall. Work 8041.

The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door. Work 7890.

Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide. Work 7619.