PAUL TREVOR – LIKE YOU’RE NEVER BEEN AWAY
2011-05-16This exhibition features 58 photographs of children playing on the streets of 1970s Liverpool.
In 1975 Paul Trevor came to Liverpool to document inner city deprivation for the ‘Survival Programmes’ project. His remarkable photographs tell a different story however. Their backdrop may be the dereliction of post-war Liverpool. But these images go beyond this bleak cityscape and get close to his real subject: families and children.
Paul’s direct and honest street photography shows life as it was lived in a community defiant in the face of poverty, unemployment and the state of their surroundings. He depicts a place where the streets and wastelands became playgrounds, the family was a constant, and where children seem fun-loving and free.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
England
