SUNIL GUPTA
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The Body Positive

This extended portrait was made to record the period of time during which this person became aware of becoming HIV positive. Despite the availability of drugs, being a foreign national in London meant he had to return to his home country; where he didn't survive. The work has become a homage to those who didn't "make it". His picture is on the cover of my book, "Wish You Were Here: Memories of a gay life" Yoda Press, New Delhi 
  • 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