East End

Perhaps no-one took more photographs in the East End of London in the sixties than John Claridge? People say life was hard in the East End but I found the living was easy and I loved it. Collecting together more than two hundred of John Claridge''s stylish and evocative images, this is a candid insider''s portrait of an entire society observed by a unique photographic talent. My East End''s gone, it doesn''t exist anymore and these are pictures I could never do again, but seeing them now is like looking at an old friend. Accompanied by an extended interview with John Claridge by The Gentle Author See more