The Apna Heritage Archive has been profiled internationally in a beautiful 17-page special feature as part of this Autumns Special Issue on ‘Photographic Digital Heritage on Cultural Conflicts’ in the internationally acclaimed research journal ‘Photography & Culture’ and has been guest edited by Professor Gil Pasternak from the Photography History Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester. The feature covers the context of the work of Punjabi Migration to the Black Country at a time of racial conflict in the region, the research and collection methods for the photographic archive and the impact and achievement of the facilitation of digital archive from personal environments into public spaces, coupled with their collation as socially and culturally potent historical sources. Here’s a little video of our feature in the journal. Special thanks to Professor Gil Pasternak who is become an encouraging supporter of the archive here in the UK!
A BCVA project achieved through Arts Council England funding