Best known for his eponymous fashion label, designer Ashish Gupta has created a new limited-edition photographic book for House of Voltaire, Looking for now, the latest in their exclusive collaborations.
Featuring 64 original photographs printed in full colour, Looking for now is an intimate and often provocative document celebrating queer longing. Released to coincide with Studio Voltaire’s ‘Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland’ exhibition, all sales support the not-for-profit’s world-renowned artistic and public programmes.
According to Ashish, the photographs in Looking for now are “full of joy, humour, longing, desire and more than a little feeling of tenderness about sex and sexiness. It’s also about exploring images of sexuality and masculinity, but not just the type of images that we tend to see in the mainstream of gay culture.”
Looking for now will launch on Saturday July 27th 2024, from 4–6 pm at Studio Voltaire (1A Nelsons Row, London, SW4 7JR), where Ashish will be signing copies. The first few lucky buyers will also receive an original Polaroid taken by Ashish.
Looking for now is available via houseofvoltaire.org with global shipping or from House of Voltaire’s permanent store in Clapham, London. Read our exclusive interview with Ashish about his previous photography book GAZE.
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