Our Work
At Ajoriya Foundation, we believe that culture is made through participation—through shared stories, skills, memories, and care. Our projects bring together artists, researchers, educators, and community members to explore heritage, archives, and creative practices rooted in Bihar and connected to wider worlds. We invite you to contribute to these projects in ways big and small—by sharing knowledge, collaborating creatively, supporting research, or imagining new possibilities with us.
Bihar Visual Archive
An Instagram initiative that began in 2021, driven by a desire to engage with Bihar’s overlooked histories and everyday visual cultures. Over the past four years, it has evolved into a digital archive with a growing repository of images and micro-narratives documenting the region’s art, culture, and heritage. Ajoriya Foundation now supports this initiative.
Poorvanchal aur Palayan: Traversing Migration Narratives
A virtual storytelling project led by Sudeshna Rana (Dhanbad Journal) and Akash Bharadwaj (Bihar Visual Archive). Focusing on Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and parts of West Bengal and Odisha, the project, in its inaugural edition (2023-24), brought together stories of migration, ranging from students' and marital relocation to labour mobility and transnational journeys shaped by indenture, Partition, and the Gulf oil boom. Supported by the Serendipity Arts Foundation, it highlighted the diverse lived experiences of eastern India, challenging dominant narratives that often overlook the region’s complex histories and cultural connections.
A long-term photo-documentary project led by Akash Bharadwaj and Kumar Vivek that looks beyond museums as silent, sacred spaces to reveal their lived, human realities. Reimagining museums as dynamic environments shaped by people, labour, waiting, routine, and time, the project documents both the visible and invisible lives of museums in South Asia—its architecture, workforce, visitors, silences, and in-betweens.