Large-format photographic works by Billy Dosanjh, composed from hundreds of source files using filmic principles of casting, set-building, costume, and lighting. Each image functions as a silent, operatic film — and can be explored at full print resolution using the deep-zoom viewer.
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The Hidden Hand
2026RIM-2026-003
A panoramic tableau of a wet Walsall street in 1964, as election-year tension simmers in the Black Country. Multiple communities — South Asian foundry workers, Teddy Boys, a Jamaican nurse, new arrivals — occupy the same pavement, caught between belonging and exile.
Ghosts in the Cane
2026RIM-2026-004
A psychological portrait of memory and industrial toil. A Punjabi foundry worker, back at his lodgings after a shift, is visited by the figures he left behind — his brother, the farmers of his village, the life before emigration.
Forbidden Embrace
2026RIM-2026-005
An intimate Pietà — an Indian man shelters a woman in a lock-up on Butts Road, 1965. He is bruised, foundry-stained, exiled from two worlds. She is modernised — caught between assimilation and origin. A policeman's torch searches the dark.
Dayshift
2019RIM-2019-001
The first work in The Exiles series. Migrant foundry workers take a break in the courtyard, away from the indigenous workforce, as their foreman asks them to cast a union vote they cannot fully understand.
Seamstress
2022RIM-2022-002
The woman reading a letter in Dayshift returns here, in the sewing factory. Women from the South Asian community worked in these factories under conditions that were deeply unscrupulous in terms of fair payment and health and safety.
Paths You Walk (2026)
Works commissioned as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund project are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) . You are free to share and adapt for any purpose, including commercially, provided you credit Billy Dosanjh / Reimagining Industrial Migratory Stories CIC.
The Exiles (2019–2022)
© Billy Dosanjh. All rights reserved. These works may not be reproduced, downloaded, or printed without written permission. The series is available for exhibition loan and private sale.
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