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After the Storm, from Paths You Walk: Butts Road, Walsall during the 1962 Big Freeze. Deep snow on the road, period shopfronts including the Rainbow Cafe lit from inside, a solitary figure standing in the white.
After the Storm · 2026 · Fine art photograph · 1350 × 1100 mm framed · The New Art Gallery Walsall

Paths You Walk

Paths You Walk is a body of large-format photographs and a three-part film built from oral testimony gathered in Caldmore, Palfrey, Pleck, and The Butts. Constructed sets dressed against the Walsall archive. The same ground, sixty years apart.

Each image is the work of three to four days of preparation: deep consultation with the families whose stories are carried in the frame, period dressing of a real residential street, vintage vehicles and signage hauled in, and a single staged tableau exposed against the live Walsall weather. In January 2026 the snow came, and kept falling, through the final night of the shoot. After the Storm is the image that came out of it.

The film series at the heart of the work, Three Cantos, sits alongside the photographs and the period props in the gallery. The exhibition is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and produced by Reimagining Industrial Migratory Stories CIC. Currently exhibiting at The New Art Gallery Walsall to 12 July 2026. View the Cantos →

Stage Exit, from Paths You Walk: a wide nighttime view of the dressed Butts Road set, period vehicles and shopfronts.
Ambush, from Paths You Walk: a tableau staged on a Walsall street, period dressing.
Cantos film still: a snowbound Black Country terrace at dusk, gaslight, cooling towers behind.

By firmly planting his artistic project in the working class, post-industrial, communities of South Asian heritage in the Black Country, Dosanjh has taken on the task of creating a new form of 'settler art'.

Hammad Nasar, New Art Exchange, 2023
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