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Delhi: Communities of Belonging
Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people's lives in India today. Focusing on Delhi, noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan 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 in this lavishly presented volume reflect the photographers' celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. In Delhi , we are invited into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of subjects from different backgrounds―from urban professionals to day laborers. A visually arresting document in its own right, Delhi presents American readers with a starting point for understanding the profound struggles for recognition by India's LGBTQ community.
Delhi was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).
The photographs in this lavishly presented volume reflect the photographers' celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. In Delhi , we are invited into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of subjects from different backgrounds―from urban professionals to day laborers. A visually arresting document in its own right, Delhi presents American readers with a starting point for understanding the profound struggles for recognition by India's LGBTQ community.
Delhi was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).
- GenresLGBTNonfiction
136 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2016
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Sunil Gupta
134 books13 followersIndia's best-known working photographer, Gupta is also a well-known artist, curator, and writer.
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January 2, 2021
There is such courage from those who agreed to be interviewed and photographed for this book.
What is striking is how there are centuries of beautiful same-sex stories in Indian culture which this book highlights.
India has much further to go with queer rights and are in a way where the U.S. and other countries were a decade before.
Kudos to Jon Stryker for financially supporting this book.
What is striking is how there are centuries of beautiful same-sex stories in Indian culture which this book highlights.
India has much further to go with queer rights and are in a way where the U.S. and other countries were a decade before.
Kudos to Jon Stryker for financially supporting this book.
February 14, 2017
If anything will put the struggle of acceptance and the battle for equality into perspective, this photo essay really does. It makes one think of how lucky we are here in the U.S. It details how laws and customs are so very different. It highlights the change of the law from legal to not legal and the rise of homophobia.
January 30, 2017
beautiful and telling
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