Paul Trevor - Photographs.

Paul Trevor (b. 1947, London) is a British documentary photographer who began working in the early 1970s after leaving a career in accountancy. His practice has centred on street and social documentary photography, with a consistent focus on urban working-class life in Britain. He was a founding member of EXIT Photography Group in 1975, alongside Nicholas Battye and Chris Steele-Perkins, and contributed to the collective’s major projects on poverty and social conditions.

Through EXIT, Trevor worked on the long-term project Survival Programmes: In Britain’s Inner Cities, produced between 1975 and 1980. The group photographed inner-city areas across Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Belfast, and Newcastle, documenting housing, unemployment, and everyday life. The resulting archive consisted of over 10,000 images and became one of the most significant photographic records of Britain’s inner cities in the late twentieth century. Survival Programmes was published in 1982 and exhibited at the Side Gallery in Newcastle and Camerawork in London.

Alongside EXIT, Trevor also pursued independent projects. His most notable body of solo work was produced in Liverpool during the same period, generating an archive of around 5,000 photographs. This material was later exhibited as Like You’ve Never Been Away at the Walker Art Gallery in 2011. His work has been collected by institutions including Tate Britain, the Museum of London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and remains a key resource in the study of British documentary photography.

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