#sunil gupta

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Sunil Gupta, The New Pre-Raphaelites #5 (2008)

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“Christopher Street, New York 1976” Photographs by Sunil Gupta

“I spent my weekends cruising with my camera, it was the heady days after Stonewall and before AIDS when we were young and busy creating a gay public space such as hadn't really been seen before.

​In retrospect these pictures have become both nostalgic and iconic for a very important moment in my personal history.” - Sunil Gupta

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Lovers - Ten Years On, (Lisa & Emily), Photo by Sunil Gupta, 1984-85

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Sunil Gupta, Exiles series shot in Delhi early 1980s

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Sunil Gupta - After Lynes, Untitled #1 (2021)

Digital print on Hahnemuhle bamboo

Gupta’s 'Pre-Raphaelites' series engages wtih romance, desire, passion and British Colonialist law - specifically section 377, which criminalised "against the order of nature". Dealing with the ‘truths’ of posturing gay couples, single people and families, the photographs are centred on (real people) who occupy the spaces of criminal intent within the lines of section 377.

The Pre-Raphaelites stood for a reformation of art, for attention to near-photographic detail and colour, the brilliance of which was meant to wipe out the “unstable areas of muddy darkness” that characterised the hypocrisy of the classical Victorian pose. Connecting to this art historical movement is both a comment on the aesthetic nature of works such as this one, and the light shed by the political positioning of the series.

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📸 by Sunil Gupta

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Come Out: Protest and Pride, Sunil Gupta, 1985-1995

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Hauz Khas, from the series Exiles, 1987-88, Sunil Gupta

Full title: "Hauz Khas. It must be marvelous for you in the West with your bars, clubs, gay liberation and all that."

"The series "Exiles" set out to document the experience of gay men in Delhi, Gupta's hometown."