Aperture

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In the mid-1980s, soon after graduating with an MA in photography from the Royal College of Art, Sunil Gupta wrote in the pages of the British photography quarterly : “It’s time we reconstructed images of desire by ourselves and for ourselves.” Gupta has made sensitive portraits about homosexuality in Indian cities and advocated for more equitable representation in UK art spaces, pushing postcolonial resistance throughout a career spanning life in Delhi, New York, and London. His writing, recently collected in (Aperture, 2022), is fierce in its political commitments while attuned

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