Annand Chhabra is the director of Black Country Visual Arts and he initiated and worked on the award-winning photographic archive on Punjabi Migration to Wolverhampton 1960s-80s’ – ‘Apna Heritage Archive.’
Anand is working with staff and students at Dudley College and Dudley Archives.
My focus has been in creating a project with the idea of collecting some sort of photographic images stored in archives of the Punjabi community’s involvement with work in the Black Country.
For this commission I set out to research and make new work around an area that I felt needed more attention — Punjabi workers and their unseen influence and impact across the region.