Delhi: Communities of Belonging

Photographs: Sunil Gupta & Charan Singh
Text: Nina Kalenbach
Publisher: The New Press
136 pages
Pictures: 78
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781620972656
Price: $25
Paperback, 8 x 10 in

Delhi: Communities of Belonging (The New Press, November 2016) by noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh offers a powerful series of more than 150 photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people’s lives in India today. Focusing on the city of Delhi, Gupta and Singh chronicle the halting emergence of networks of men and women living under the shadow of stigma and criminalized behavior —in a country where anti-sodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were recently struck down, only to be reaffirmed in a surging wave of homophobia.

The photographs reflect the photographers’ celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. Through seventeen unique stories, Delhi invites the viewer into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of their subjects from different backgrounds—from urban professionals to day laborers.

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