“These early weavings were really about me trying to locate my place in America, in the West. During my lunch breaks at high school, as my English was very bad,…
“I lived with some drag queens so I photographed drag queens. I never decided that drag queens formed a subject that I had to photograph. The work was always a…
“Nudes are there since always. We were born nude. So talking about revolution, I don’t think there’s anything to revolutionize. Unless people are born with clothes on, and I want…
“My work is really simple; I don’t have a lot of hidden agendas. It’s about place and identity and how they inform each other, and that includes myself; but iconic…
“One of the things which I’ve been involved in at the studio is working on my archive and that entails us going back to early works and trying to think…
“My work comes out of my life. The people I photograph are not freaks or curiosities to me. I like people who dare. I want to be discussed in hushed…
“My home and the images I was exposed to influenced my desire and made me the person I am today, in releasing that history and releasing those archives, I can…
“I wanted something that told a good story in a portrait. Portraiture allowed me to keep my voice. I think my work is stronger when I have a point of…
“My work is full of emotion and drama, you can get to that drama by using a narrative, and my narratives are usually very simple, but I twist it. There…
“From participating in New York’s active Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s to his more recent campaigning for gay liberation in India, Sunil Gupta has been inspirational to generations of…
