Sunil gupta jailer
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Meet The Real Life Tihar Jailer Sunil Gupta From Netflix's Recent Series Black Warrant
Sunil Gupta, the former superintendent of Tihar Jail, Delhi's highest security jail has now again become a prominent figure. This is following the release of the Netflix series Black Warrant. Based on his real-life experiences and the book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer, co-written with journalist Sunetra Chowdhary, the series sheds light on the inner workings of India's most notorious prison.
The series is directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, it has also sparked conversations around the systemic issues in Indian prisons, including corruption, gang wars, and security lapses.
Hero, with a Non-heroic Entry
Gupta's journey to Tihar jail began in 1981 when he left a stable job at Indian Railways to pursue his dream of donning the khaki uniform. His modest background and lack of physical dominance, as shown in the series, did not discourage him from being a jailer at India's most notorious jail, though his traits were not traditionally emphasized for prison officers at the time. A
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Sunil Gupta (photographer)
Indian-born Canadian photographer
Sunil Gupta (born 1953)[1] is an Indian-born Canadian photographer, based in London.[2] His career has been spent "making work responding to the injustices suffered by gay men across the globe, himself included",[2][3] including themes of sexual identity, migration, race and family.[4] Gupta has produced a number of books and his work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Tate. In 2020, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.[5]
Early life and education
Gupta was born in New Delhi, India in 1953.[6] In 1969, he migrated to Montreal, Canada with his family.[2]
He studied at Dawson College, Montreal (1970–1972); gained a Bachelor of Commerce in accountancy at Concordia University, Montreal (1972–1977); studied photography at The New School for Social Research in New York City (1976); gained a diploma in photography at West Surrey College
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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 a photography course at the New School, NY, USA (1976). He went on to receive: a Diploma from West Surrey College of Art & Design, 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." Gupta lives and works in London.
Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history.
In 1976, the first set of photographs Gupta made as a practicing a
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