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In the early 1980's, Sunil Gupta enrolled at the Royal College of Art in London, where he had access to color negative processing facilities. He took to the streets of the capital in search of the gay centers London life around Earl’s Court, King's Road, and the West End. "I hoped to repeat my experience of Christopher Street in New York, except now in London and in color. It wasn't to be. Even what appeared to be a concentration of gay life was not dense enough to create its own public space, so I was getting either huge gaps between people or a crowd of very mixed people. I decided to abandon an exclusively gay subject and started concentrating on whatever caught my eye—migrants, people of color, gay men, elderly people out and about on their own." — Sunil Gupta This series recently resurfaced through Gupta's process of archiving his past images, providing a catalog of the Sloanes, New Romantic and pensioners who once roamed London's streets.