public archive
of intimacy
i call you my love is an editorial reconstruction of a relationship between two men in 1980’s britain, during a legal and social climate that required such intimacy to exist privately.
built from letters and photographs by sunil gupta and his former partner stephen, the book frames personal memory as cultural evidence.
british and american typefaces reflect the geographical distance between
the correspondents, embedding location into the reading experience.
reinforcing the essence of a scrapbook, unconventional folios were used, with the sequence organised by the dates of the letters.
the archive emphasises the presence of the original letters through scale.
this aerogramme is included as an insert — a gesture for the reader to use for personal correspondence.
photographer: sunil gupta / creative director & designer: eugenie dood / designer, photo retoucher & post-production: karen burbano / 3D animator: federico jacobsen