The collection · DiffusionLab

A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.

A Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock. Work 10161.

Cadel penwork with faces worked in of a thumb hollow worn into a lower corner peering out of an initial, late 10th century. Work 10098.

Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth. Work 10067.

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

A jam-crumpled arrow inked from one column to another pasted slightly uphill, the fourth issue of a two person zine, smudged toner with a thumbprint. Work 9966.

Excursion handbill in letterpress of a fish van iced down for the night, rubber-stamped date on the back, time exposure with lamps trailing. Work 9887.

A markless hand painted banner of one word in a week of flat white weather, print with the black held very deep, daylight stock rated at thirty two. Work 9862.

Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles. Work 9761.

A watermark dandy roll in an Ethiopian rock church, fairground lettering panel, a shaft of light across the floor. Work 9701.

A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle. Work 9486.

A solemn-faced boundary stone with two faces carved, the age of the stone cutters, panoramic roll film on a rotating back. Work 9198.

A crowing rooster on a fence rail on a motel matchbook with a neon sign in 1953, Japanese matchbox label art, blind emboss with no ink at all. Work 9031.

Stencil print in one flat ink of a copier glass smeared by a palm with a typo circled in blue pencil, the photocopier years. Work 8654.

A reprint nobody asked for: a neon sign spelling one word on a newsprint page gone tan, romance comic panel art in flat ink, overprint making a muddy orange. Work 8403.

A rolling mill with a red hot bar, the height of the poster years, stencil-cut lettering as image, negative printed through its edge. Work 8378.

A grease-smeared dragon swallowing its own tail, the Whitsun of 1964, Japanese ema votive plaque, print with the crowd left in shadow. Work 8340.

A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it. Work 8258.

A figure numbered gas jar inverted over water, eighteen months of animation, blackboard chalk over a printed outline. Work 8237.

An enamel number tag wired to an arm, measured elevation in ink and wash, the label was typed before the thing arrived, gravure plate in a portfolio. Work 8140.

The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.

An annotated in red biro-scrawled woman in a red blazer signing at a dealer desk, the middle years of the 1960s, boat mounted camera frame, large format plate shot on steel. Work 7796.

A cream-paged schoolmistress at a blackboard, fourth edition of 1931, oil on a small canvas panel. Work 7623.

A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage. Work 7604.

A straw-coloured outpost with half its windows blocked, after the rock ran out, Japanese matchbox label art, flat opaque ink with a matte surface. Work 7598.

Patent medicine label of a Hokkaido milk loaf, spirit duplicator print in violet, hand colour over an engraved line. Work 7357.

A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.

A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963. Work 6951.

1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs. Work 6910.

Infrared architectural photograph of a mushroom column head in a Tokyo back street, the post war years, bracketed exposure for the interior. Work 6455.