a Group Photograph

For many years, British researcher Andrew Tatham studied the ancestors and descendants of the officers of one British battalion, shortly before it departed for the war in September 1915.

He collected so much information on the 45 British men who can be seen alongside his great grandfather on one particular group photograph, meeting so many descendants and unearthing so many historical traces along the way, that he had to start looking for alternative, non-traditional ways of telling this story. More than 21 years after first seeing the group photograph of the officers of the 8th Battalion Berkshire Regiment, Andrew Tatham now presents a video, a forest of new family trees and 46 stained glass window designs for each of these lives. The exhibition also displays a great number of memorabilia and pictures which have been preserved by the families to this day.

46 times, over and over again, Andrew Tatham shows us how war can dramatically alter lives, both of the fallen and the survivors, and what has remained of all of them to this day.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.