About the Speakers
Sunil Gupta (b. 1953 New Delhi, India) moved to Canada as a teenager in the late 1960s, studying a Bachelor of Commerce at Concordia University, Montreal before moving to New York and enrolling in photography courses with Lisette Model, Philippe Halsman and George Tice at the New School, NY, USA (1976). He went on to receive: a Diploma from West Surrey College of Art & Design, (now UCA) Farnham, Surrey, UK (1981); an MA from Royal College of Art, London, UK (1983); and a PhD from the University of Westminster, London, UK (2019) with a thesis titled “Queer Migrations.” Honorary Awards include an MA from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Fellowships from the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal College of Art, and a Doctorate from the University of York. Gupta lives and works in London. He is a Professorial Fellow in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
Charan Singh (born 1978, Delhi, India) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the mediums of photography, video and text to understand how language shapes queer landscapes and the politics of representation. Previously an AIDS worker in India, he retrained as an artist. Singh holds a master’s in fine art from the University of Creative Arts, Farnham and a PhD from the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited at The Art House, Wakefield; The Photographers’ Gallery, FotoFest, Houston amongst others. His exhibition Your Tongue in My Mouth is currently on display at Autograph Gallery, London. His writing has appeared in Photo South Asia, TAP Review and On Curating. Singh has been commissioned by Visual Aids (New York), The Art House, Wakefield and Fierce, Birmingham. He lives and works between London and Delhi.
Fiona Anderson is an art historian based in the Fine Art department at Newcastle University. She is the author of Cruising the River: David Wojnarowicz and New York’s Ruined Waterfront (2019) and a co-editor (with Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon, and Laura Guy) of Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s (2025), a special issue of British Art Studies.
