We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference, a collection of essays by Sunil Gupta, offers an unparalleled firsthand account of the influential photographer and curator's practice since the 1970s. Newspaper articles, speeches, and critical essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his writing about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live, love, and create.

Book Information
ISBN 9781597115285
Author Sunil Gupta
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Weight(grams) 133g