“Being in the dark room is healing”
- Name: Sunil Gupta
- Born: 1953
- From: New Delhi, Montreal
- Pronouns: He/him
- Contribution/Impact: Sunil Gupta is an Indian-born Canadian photographer, based in London. His career has been spent “making work responding to the injustices suffered by gay men across the globe, himself included”, including themes of sexual identity, migration, race and family.
- Occupation: Photographer, Artist
- Known For: Christopher Street, New York 1976; “Pretended” Family Relationships, Mr Malhotra’s Party
- Awards: Exhibiting consistently since 1980, Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2020, Received a PhD from the University of Westminster in 2018
Born in New Delhi, Gupta moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15. He started documenting gay life in his photography while at Concordia University in Montreal in 1970 where he took photos for a campus gay liberation movement group’s newspaper. He has been doing so for over fifty years with the first retrospective on him exhibited in 2020, From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 and currently lives with his partner, Charan Singh, in London. His practice continues to be dedicated to themes of queer identity, race, and migration.
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