HEPHZIBAH ANDERSON
The way we shopped then: a traditional greengrocer’s shop
© JOHN STANDING / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Every autumn, Lewes in East Sussex assumes the aura of a ghost town. Take a dusk stroll through its hilly streets, and thanks to a “lightbox project” drawn from the archives of Edward Reeves— a local photography studio with claims to being the world’s oldest—window-shopping becomes an exercise in peering back in time. In dozens of storefronts, black and white images going back over 150 years are illuminated, and glow with unnerving vitality in or near to the spots where they were originally taken.