Complex sentence: What began as a short-term project turned into a seventeen year quest, with Ravilious making some 80,000 black and white images for Beaford Arts, and preserving some additional 5,000 old photographs of the area.
Split into simpler sentences: What began as a short-term project turned into a 17 year quest. Ravilious made some 80,000 black and white images for Beaford Arts, and preserved some 5,000 old photographs of the area.