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Home Front truths<br />
Reeves exhibition goes digital<br />
Throughout Artwave, and until 24th <strong>September</strong>,<br />
you’ll be able to catch Reeves' latest lightbox exhibition<br />
– with more than 80 images, including many<br />
previously unseen ones – in the windows of shops,<br />
other businesses and private houses throughout the<br />
centre of town. Entitled Stories Seen through a Glass<br />
Plate 1914-18: <strong>Lewes</strong> Remembers, and chronicling<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> Home Front during the WW1 period,<br />
it is an upgraded version of the exhibition Reeves<br />
put on last November, with a majority of the shots<br />
originally taken in or near the same building it is<br />
displayed from. The map that follows this spread<br />
(pgs 52-53) is a useful guide to all the lightboxes<br />
on show, you can also pick up a loose-leaf copy in<br />
Tourist Information and at Reeves’ Shop at 159<br />
High Street.<br />
But there’s much more to it than that. For this exhibition<br />
they have, pertinently enough for our digital<br />
edition, added the chance for those interested to do<br />
an ‘audio/visual online tour’, either on their home<br />
computers or on their phones as they walk from<br />
lightbox to lightbox.<br />
A tremendous amount of research has been done<br />
about each picture (by a team headed by Brigitte<br />
Lardinois) and various volunteers have been<br />
recorded relating information (gleaned from contemporary<br />
records and newspapers) which can be<br />
listened to while looking at the pictures, rather like<br />
the information you get from the headphones you<br />
can rent at an upmarket art gallery.<br />
What’s more, in many occasions, other pictures<br />
relating to the one on show, or blow-ups showing<br />
important details you might otherwise miss, are<br />
visible at the press of a button. Details can be found<br />
at reeveslewes.com. Have a taster at home, but next<br />
time you’re taking a stroll in the centre of town…<br />
don’t forget your earbuds.<br />
Above is one of the most striking shots in the<br />
exhibition, obviously posed (though we imagine<br />
the curious-looking young lady in the background<br />
wasn’t scripted). It was taken (it’s obvious if you look<br />
closely) in that space near the castle, in front of the<br />
Maltings, and features a pair of Royal Engineers<br />
despatch riders, who would have been training near<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, and possibly billeted in town. To the right<br />
we’re showing another picture, taken outside St Michael’s<br />
Church in 1915, with the script of the audio<br />
information you can hear when viewing it.<br />
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