Gupta has spent his career photographing queer subjects in India—and inspired a new generation to insist on making confident, unflinching work.
In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.