We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference : Selected essays by Sunil Gupta by Gupta, Sunil

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Author: Gupta, Sunil Photography & photographsPublished on 20 October 2022 by APERTURE in the United States as part of 'the Aperture Ideas' series.Paperback | 224 pages, 20 halfton e images134 x 210 x 17 | 296g We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled firsthand 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. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live, love, and create. Show more