How I Met a Gang in Hackney

"I was a third year film student living in London and I was in my early twenties. I shared a flat with two other women in a part of East London called Hackney," she says. "Hackney is pretty gentrified now, but at the time it was hovering between being a rough area and being a hip area." There were a lot of students, but also a lot of messed up people walking the streets of Hackney,. She adds: 'There was a lot of gang related violence'

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