Photos and interview by Stacie JoyEast Village resident Irene Mok has spent years photographing the people and places around her — often without realizing she was creating an archive of growing up in New York City. Those images, paired with personal essays and Mok's graphic design, became "Locals Only," a self-published, 384-page coffee table book centered largely on the East Village, Lower East Side and Chinatown. The project began as her senio…
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