
Sunil Gupta is an artist, curator, writer and cultural activist. In 1989 he co-founded Autograph: the Association of Black Photographer and also set up the Organisation for Visual Arts (OVA) in 1992, both in London, to promote a greater understanding of culturally diverse practises in the visual arts. His latest book
Queer Sunil Gupta was published by Prestel/Vadehra Art Gallery in March 2011. His latest art project,
Sun City about a gay Indian man in a Paris bath house was commissioned and is currently being exhibited by the Centre Pompidou, Paris in May-Sept, 2011 as part of their "Paris-Delhi-Bombay..." exhibition. Gupta currently lives in Delhi and London.
Anna Fox has been working in photography and video for nearly thirty years. Influenced by British documentary tradition and US 'New Colourists,' her first work,
Workstations, published and exhibited first at Camerawork, London (1988), observed with a critical eye London office culture in the mid-Thatcher years. Later work documenting weekend war games,
Friendly Fire, was exhibited in the exhibition Warworks at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Netherlands Foto Instituut, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her solo shows have been seen at The Photographer's Gallery, London, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and her work has been included in numerous international group shows including "Through the Looking Glass, Documentary Dilemmas and New Natural History," among others. She has had several monographs of her work published, and the first retrospective of her work, Cockroach Diary and other Stories, opened at Impressions Gallery in the summer of 2008. Fox's work has recently been exhibited in From Tarzan to Rambo at the Tate Modern; Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant Garde at the Tate Liverpool, and How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain. Anna Fox is Professor of Photography at The University College for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham, England.
Image: Sunil Gupta,
The New Pre-Raphaelites # 11. Courtesy of the artist.