Adam Patterson

When Adam Patterson moved to London and began taking pictures of London gang members, he struck up a friendship with a gang leader called Vipoh (aka Jean-Claude Dagrou) who headed up a crew known as the Loughborough Soldiers. Patterson has been tracing Dagrou’s transition from south London gangbanger to loving father and husband in a photographic series that spanned five years. In Vipoh, Dagrou looks back on his old life and towards the future.

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