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