Ben Luke
speaker
1,919 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Ben Luke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Used a phrase from the homophobic section 28, also known as Clause 28, which sought to prohibit schools and local authorities from, quote, promoting homosexuality.
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Like exiles, this series used text alongside the photographs, and there were three components a picture of an unnamed couple, an image of a demonstration against the legislation, and a poem by Senil's then partner, Stephen Dodd.
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He developed this more consistent.
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Conceptual structuring of the photographic images in pieces like 1999's From Here to Eternity.
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This was arguably Sunil's most personal project to date since it reflected on his HIV diagnosis, pairing intimate self-portraits with tightly cropped unpeopled images of the locations of queer clubs and saunas.
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The project, he said, was concerned with the stigma of the illness and whether it meant he was being shut inside the clubs or on the outside for good.
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In 2003, Sunil returned to Delhi to live and stayed there for a decade.
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He made a number of key series, among them Tales of a City from 2004, images, including historic buildings and everyday life, in what was known in Mughal times as Shah Jahanabad, now called Old Delhi.
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Another important work is Country, Portrait of an Indian Village, actually initiated in 1982 but begun in greater depth after.
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2006, following the death of Sunil's father.
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Made in Mundia Pama in India, it tracks his personal heritage and how it links with wider themes of gender, sexuality, place, and property.
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Malhotra's party from 2007 to 12, meanwhile, reflected a change in LGBTQ lives in India, representing out-gay people who meet our gaze directly, as opposed to the deliberately obscured figures in the exile series.
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A number of projects have explored the idea of experiencing love after an HIV diagnosis through diverse means, including The New Pre-Raphaelites from 2009 and Sun City from 2011, discussed in our conversation.
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In the period since his return to the UK in 2013, Sunil has continued to respond both to London and India.
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In 2022, Songs of Deliverance, he collaborated with LGBTQ people from the
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Adult HIV clinic and gender affirmation surgery service in two London hospitals to create works that again fuse photography and text.
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In Delhi, he made Descent and Desire in 2015, a study of the everyday lives of 17 members of Delhi's queer community.
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Descent and Desire is one of Sunil's many collaborations with his partner, the photographer Charan Singh.
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