Sunil Gupta arrived in London at the beginning of Thatcher's rule. Now he's publishing images taken at a complicated junction in the city's history.
, where British trade unions organised more than 2,000 strikes nationwide to protest the Labour government's imposition of a 5% wage increase limit. Streets piled with garbage, hospital services were limited, and gravediggers put their shovels down. The following year, under Margaret Thatcher's leadership, the Conservatives capitalised on the unrest in their rise to power.
"The government criminalised cruising, which they legally equated to curb crawling and soliciting," Sunil says."They used it very aggressively in London so the public was still fearful. On the whole, there weren't many people visible on the street. Clubs were hidden away because you could be arrested. It was like how I imagined New York in the 1950s to be. It was difficult to find my place.
Sunil turned to street photography once again to navigate his experiences of life in a new city. While pursuing his MA in photography at the, he began searching for London's equivalent to the West Village, photographing small concentrations of gay life around Earl's Court, King's Road, and the West End."I was carrying my camera everywhere because I was in school and could spend all my days wandering around.
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