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 issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.