Kamal Badhey an American Documentary photographer from New York joined our workshops for the Punjabi communities at BCLM and will be conducting her own interviews and research areas for BCVA around the work of the Apna Heritage Archive. The PhD funding has been granted through the AHRC via the University of Brighton. Chair Anand Chhabra is a a supervisor and will help organise various activities that Kamal has highlighted for research. Kamal was keen to start meeting members of the Punjabi communities in the Black Country for her first year and this is her second visit tothe region . Kamal will be hear for the long haul (3 years) and we welcome her and look forward to supporting her work with us. We are fascinated to see what new discoveries she will find through the archive.
Educational officer at BCLM Janine Downs welcomes the community of ladies to BCLM and wishes to readdress narratives about the Punjabi community for their forthcoming Forging Ahead project at the Museum. IMAGE ©BCVA (An Arts Council Funded project)
The community of ladies enjoy the objects put on show for them by BCLM c1950s-1970s and they re-ignite memories of the post war era in the UK and their subsequent migration to the BC region. IMAGE ©BCVA (An Arts Council Funded project)
PhD student Kamal Badhey looks on to join the discussion as group leaders gather ladies to share their images and stories of the early years of migration. IMAGE ©BCVA (An Arts Council Funded project)
Sharing a photograph like this is indicative of the working lives of many Punjabis with this fantastic image of sewing machines at home in the Black Country. IMAGE ©BCVA (An Arts Council Funded project)
Ladies share some fascinating and emotive stories testament to their struggle to settle in the Black Country during the 1960s-80s IMAGE ©BCVA (An Arts Council Funded project)