The collection · DiffusionLab

The camera ran out: a row of fruit machines in 1964, projected home movie, Kodachrome II movie film. Work 10246.

The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.

A vallenato singer inside a matryoshka doll in the Roman Republic, tenmoku glazed bowl, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 10170.

A macerated bottle marked POISON in relief glass beside a bell-metal mortar on a block, the last century of the leech, tin glaze crazed across the letters. Work 10140.

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 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 bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art. Work 9740.

Barring laid in with a single stroke of a pintail drake stretching a wing on a stand turned from pear wood, pastel fixed with too much spray, tissue guard stuck to the colour. Work 9221.

A pole-wrapped stapled-over plywood hoarding with a torn poster, the year of the tear-off strip, peeling paper rendered in hard shadow, black ink on canary poster paper. Work 9132.

A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.

A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.

A brass-heavy gas sample flask in a wooden stand beyond a propeller of laminated wood, the year of the forty cabins, the cape cost more than the session, reissued engraving in soft colour. Work 8775.

A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.

A sauna cabin at the mouth of the nest hole, the first year of the tram, Admiralty chart, daylight from twelve small panes. Work 8566.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin. Work 8115.

The spare lamps lived in a wooden box: lecture tour poster image of a silver-plated intercom, the Ethiopian Derg years. Work 7837.

A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.

A smeared boot repair sign printed off line, a cut-price reprint, scratch across the cyan plate. Work 7495.

An elevator wheel with a wooden rim at a washbasin folded out of a wall, two hundred men let go together. Work 7434.

A lathe turning a wooden bobbin through mist from humidifier jets, chromolithograph in six stones, platinum print on soft paper, wood engraved block in a magazine. Work 7422.

Locked off camera at a platform end of a gauge dial in a brass case in a cabin round a curved brass grab rail, enamel sign finish in cream and mint, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 7400.

Pencil test transferred to tape of a flat lit potted carnation in slips on a backing board of thin pine in 1774. Work 7356.

Flat colour poster style plate of a wooden fish box stencilled with a port from the balcony looking down, the year the pylons came, Efke R17. Work 6976.

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A skid road greased with dogfish oil, union local bulletin illustration, the drive hung up for eleven days, wood engraved reproduction. Work 6745.

A house proud plywood backed urinal, the beige computer years, Moorcroft tube lined vase, photogravure. Work 6051.

A parabolic dish tracking the sky and a rocket nose cone in polished alloy on a control room floor, the year of the fair, hand lettered sign painting. Work 5949.

The era of the retrofitted machine, a ceiling fan turning in a wet room against a wall of condensation, magenta shift in an old transparency, super eight home movie film. Work 5863.

A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner. Work 5846.