Ben Luke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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Hello, I'm Ben Luke, and welcome to A Brush With, the podcast from the Art Newspaper, in which I talk to artists about their influences from writers to musicians and of course other artists and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work.
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And this episode is a brush with Sunil Gupta, and you can watch this conversation as a video on the YouTube channels of the Art newspaper and Bloomberg Connects.
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Across more than half a century, Sunil Gupta.
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Gupta has explored queer identity, migration, and race through photography.
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Born in New Delhi in 1953, but based in Canada and the UK as well as India since he became an artist, Sunil has reflected on his personal background and autobiography to explore a wealth of social and political themes, from queer desire and relationships to the social and geographical environments in which LGBTQ life and love happens.
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To political violence and the oppression of queer people, and the HIV AIDS crisis and its legacy.
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He said that he couldn't separate the living from the art making.
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Working in series that often have novel conceptual structures and explore different modes of presentation and expression in the photographic space, Sunil is both an artist and activist with a long held conviction to represent his own experience and that of people and communities like him.
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Like him in cultural fields where they've largely been absent.
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As I say, Sunil was born in 1953 in New Delhi, but in 1969 he moved with his father, mother, and sister to Montreal.
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Initially, he studied accountancy there at Concordia University, but as we'll hear, while he was there, he began to develop his interest in photography.
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He also became involved in the gay liberation movement at the university.
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His earliest photographs gathered under
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The title Friends and Lovers coming out in Montreal in the 1970s include intimate snapshots with the gay family he embraced, but also protest and reportage-like images, for instance, of Aquarius, the bathhouse that was firebombed in 1975, killing three people.
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His romantic relationship at that time took him to New York, purportedly to study for an MBA.
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But while in New York, Sunil took classes at the New School with a photographic.
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Photographer Lizette Modell, who taught Diane Arbus.
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