Sunil Gupta

‘The dark room is magic and healing.’

The Indian-born Gupta‘s family migrated to Montreal, Canada in 1969. After university, Gupta moved to New York, then London for love. His Christopher Street series portrayed gay men in pre-AIDS Manhattan as a kind of alternative family. On arrival in London he began to explore postcolonial and queer identity, with Reflections on the Black Experience and Lovers, Ten Years On (1984-86) and Pretended Family Relationship (1988, in response to the Thatcher government’s Clause 28). He helped set up Autograph, the association of Black Photographers, in London in 1988.