The Exhibition
LightKeep is made in kitchens and front rooms. It will be shown a few streets away — in the village, free, close to the people it belongs to.
The first full LightKeep exhibition is planned for early 2027: the definitive portraits printed at scale, the companion photographs that place each person in their world, and the written records — every life, told plainly, in print. Venue and dates will be announced here. Entry will be free, and the people in the portraits will see the exhibition before anyone else does.
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Visualisation: how the work could hang
The exhibition ends. The archive doesn’t. Every portrait, film and written account remains in the online archive — free, permanent, open — and in print, deposited in the village for good.
Access
LightKeep is made with people in their eighties and nineties. Many don’t drive. Most don’t use the internet. Almost none of them would call themselves gallery-goers. A project made for them has no business being hard to reach — so here, plainly, is how the work reaches people. With a screen or without one.
In person. Portraits and conversations happen at home. Nobody travels to LightKeep; it travels to them. The exhibition will be held in the village itself, at an accessible venue, free of charge, with seating and assistance throughout. All written material will be available in large print.
Online, with help. The online archive is free and open — no accounts, no advertising, nothing to install. Films are subtitled. Images carry written descriptions. And LightKeep is taking advice from digital inclusion specialists on how the archive reaches people for whom the internet is a barrier — details will be announced here.
In print. Every subject receives their portraits and their written record as physical prints — theirs to keep, no device required. A printed catalogue will accompany the exhibition: the whole archive on paper, deposited with the village archive so it outlasts any website, including this one.
Without the internet. If the internet isn’t part of your life, nothing about LightKeep is closed to you. You can take part, visit, and hold the work in your hands. To reach the project by phone or post:
T: 07825 770948
67 Eley Drive,
Rottingdean,
Brighton
BN2 7FG