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Talking to…Photographer Clayton Patterson

Photo by Elsaa Rensaa (via Gerry Visco) For 30 years, Clayton Patterson has doggedly documented the streets and culture of the Lower East Side, compiling a massive archive of the neighborhood and i…

Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/talking-to-photographer-clayton-patterson/

We posted on Clayton Patterson’s most recent brush with the law at a crime scene last month and thought it would be interesting to talk to this photographer/artist/activist about his experiences with the police and being arrested a whopping 14 times. We were right.