Sunil Gupta: We Were Here

Aperture, 2022, softcover, 224 pages, 20 x 13 cm

We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled first hand account of the influential photographer and curator Sunil Gupta’s writing and critical inquiry since the 1970s.

Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta’s crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery.