“I Put the Camera Everywhere”: Sunil Gupta’s Vivid Photos of 80s London

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Transporting you to 1982

, and the architecture [in Earl’s Court] looked like that: tall terrace houses with black railings,” Gupta recalls. “But I’d become fond of New York, so I was reluctant to come. It was good and bad. I’m a product of British colonial India, my upbringing was entirely in British English, so everything was familiar compared to North America. But otherwise it got a bit grim: the gay scene felt very oppressive. People were being hounded – there was literally a police campaign to arrest people.

Arriving in tandem with a rise in fascism, Gupta encountered additional discrimination he’d not experienced in New York. “It was the days of the National Front, so I became mostly conscious of other Black and Asian people on the street and shot them,” he says, referencing his primary subjects. “Around where I lived, it was a mixture of people with and without money. In New York, the poor lived in one place and the rich in another, but here it was all mixed up.

 

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