Archival pigment print, 35.6 x 53.3 cm. Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Collections Fund at Frieze, 2021/22

Sunil Gupta works as a photographer, writer and curator, seeking to promote a greater understanding of questions regarding representation, sexuality, access and cultural difference. His career, which spans four decades, has been either community-based, as he photographed other members of the queer community, or introspective, as he documented his medical journey after being diagnosed as HIV+.

Gupta uses his own lived experiences of race, migration and queer identity as a point of departure for photographic projects. Sunil and His Parents (Ram & Penny) is a portrait of the artist with his mother and father. His parents hold each other while he stands slightly apart.