Andrew Tatham

Andrew Tatham was looking for ideas for artworks when he came across a First World War group photograph. That one photograph led to 21 years of research and creation culminating in a major exhibition at In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium.

'A Group Photograph - Before, Now & In-Between' (ISBN:978-0993530203) is the book of that exhibition. It explores the lives of all 46 men in the group photograph, telling their stories and showing artworks that think about who they were and how they are remembered. After an appearance on the Jeremy Vine Show in December 2015, there was a tidal wave of interest in this book.

Andrew Tatham's second book, 'I Shall Not Be Away Long' (ISBN: 978-0993530227), is based on the First World War letters of Lt Col Charles Bartlett. Charles Bartlett was the second-in-command in the group photograph (he is sitting alongside the Commanding Officer, William Walton, who was Andrew Tatham's great-grandfather). The letters are presented so that you can easily read them along with images of the original letters and notes about the people, items and events mentioned along the way.

One day there will be a third book about how this single photograph took over his life.