Thursday 3 June 19:00 via Zoom
Paul Trevor first picked up a camera when he was 25, abandoning his job as an accountant. A story teller at heart, he chose photography as a medium in which he could set his narratives, motivated by a keen social impulse.
A self-taught photographer, Paul Trevor feels his early lengthy collaborations with the Exit Photography Group and the Half Moon Photography Workshop in the 1970s compensated for his lack of a formal photographic education.
His book projects include Constant Exposure (1987), Like You’ve Never been Away (2011), Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane(2019), and In Your Face (2020). With the Exit Photography Group he is co-author of Down Wapping (1973) and Survival Programmes (1982). His photographs have been exhibited internationally since the 1970s and are in public and private collections worldwide.
In 1991, Roger Estop wrote in the London Independent Photography Journal: “Paul Trevor reacts strongly against being pigeonholed. He is motivated by a basic enthusiasm for photography and communication, people, their energy and interactions and is influenced by the European photographic tradition – more emotional, less constrained than the British tradition. His work has never fallen into a rut, and he has always looked towards new ideas.” Thirty years later that’s still the case.