SUNIL GUPTA
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Cruising 1960s Delhi

I returned in the early 1980s to Delhi and took these photos of a walk through in my 1960s childhood cruising grounds in my neighbourhood. The pictures start in the lane behind our home and then come around to the front of the building in East Nizamuddin in the very last row of houses beyond which there was a railway line and a ring road and fields stretching out towards UP and the river Yamuna where we swam. But in the wasteland just behind Humayun's Tomb and within the tomb walls we found a perfect playground to discover our sexualities.

Silver Gelatine prints
Dimensions variable
Exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 
​Edition of 3+1AP

  • Home
  • Photography
    • Friends & Lovers: Coming Out in Montréal in the 1970s
    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • London 1977
    • Cruising 1960s Delhi
    • Towards an Indian Gay Image
    • London 1982
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians in Bradford
    • Exiles
    • Social Security
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Trespass 1
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 3
    • From Here to Eternity
    • The Body Positive
    • Love and Light
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Homelands
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • Anonymous Self Portraits
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Women in Love
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Sun City
    • Stockwell
    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
    • Dissent and Desire
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part I
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part II
    • Walworth Road
    • Arrival
  • Books
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Disrupted Borders
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
    • Trespass 1
    • Sunil Gupta Monograph
    • Pictures From Here
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Queer
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Christopher Street
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • London 1982
    • From Here To Eternity
    • We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
    • Come Out
    • Tessa Boffin Ed. Sunil Gupta
    • Tate Photography: Sunil Gupta
  • Shop
    • Limited Edition Prints
    • Books For Sale
  • Video
  • Curating
    • Stevie Bezencenet
    • Joy Gregory
    • Same Difference
    • The New Republics
    • Simryn Gill
    • Divine Facades
    • Fernando Arias
  • Newsletters
    • 2025
    • 2024 Archive
    • 2023 Archive
  • Columns
    • A Return from Exile
    • Relative Values
    • The End of Marriage
    • A Laying on of Hands
    • City of Dreams
    • Oral History
    • Pride and Prejudice
  • Press
  • About
  • Contact