Fotograf & Kreativ
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2 photographs

July 5, 2022

Folk historian and documentarian Clayton Patterson sits contemplatively in his cluttered Essex Street studio, his distinctive long gray beard and skull-adorned cap reflecting decades of chronicling Manhattan's Lower East Side. Warm afternoon light filters through the space, illuminating stacks of books, scattered baseball caps with skull motifs, and the accumulated detritus of a life spent preserving neighborhood history. His weathered hands rest thoughtfully as he surveys his domain—part archive, part sanctuary—where the counter-cultural spirit of old New York endures.
ISO 160 · 23mm · f/1.4 · 1/160

Clayton Patterson in His Lower East Side Archive

New York, New York

Clayton Patterson, the Canadian-born folk historian and photographer, sits surrounded by decades of collected artifacts in his Lower East Side studio on Essex Street.
A portrait of artist and photographer Clayton Patterson seated with his arms crossed, photographed from a low angle in his studio. He has a long, full white beard, long grey hair, and wears large square-framed tinted glasses and a black baseball cap embroidered with a skull and his name. He wears a black t-shirt and gazes directly into the camera with a commanding presence. A colorful, blurred mural or artwork is visible in the background.
ISO 160 · 50mm · f/1 · 1/350

Clayton Patterson

New York, New York

Clayton Patterson — artist, documentarian, and photographer — in his Lower East Side studio, New York City.

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