Ben Luke

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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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A brush with... · A brush with... Sunil Gupta · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

London Council, which was a really important agency, effectively, a you know a local council which was funding progressive politics as well as progressive art, basically. matched

Well it's progressive art, basically. matched

But it became as well as a kind of means of understanding community and understanding politics and so on, it also became an a route for your work to go down, right? matched

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Eighty eight, around the time of clause twenty eight and yeah. matched

Yeah, yeah. matched

Right. matched

So in a way it became a a a division between commercial and art photography and you were very much in the art photography realm. matched

And art and like questioning, matched

Let's move on to the questions that we ask all our guests. matched

Who was the first artist whose work you loved? matched

Was it significant that you were sort of learning about it as you were learning about the formal properties of ph photography? matched

Were the two absolutely in your mind? matched

It was about image making and and the physical reality of photography, you know? matched

Yeah, matched

right? matched

So he's he's completely disrupting the whole Cartier Brussels you know, decisive. matched

But it was significant to you, wasn't it, that you on the one hand were representing queer life, but also that you were representing queer life through a non Western lens as well. matched

You know, that that actually I think you said that you never wanted photographers to be faced with the situation you found yourself in, which is you didn't see yourself represented. matched

It's really important, isn't it, that it was real, but the nature of its realness is is complicated, isn't it? matched

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