In the 1980s Paul Trevor was prowling the streets with his camera, getting in people’s faces. The two London locations he frequented are less than a mile apart, but at that time they were utterly different: the City and Brick Lane street market. It was much later that Brick Lane and the surrounding Spitalfields area would be gentrified, merging the City and one of the then poorest areas in London—now dominated by chains and big brands. Paul Trevor’s close-up snapshots, spontaneous, unstaged and invasive, give us a glimpse of local history and at the time heralded a new style of street photography in the UK. A new exhibition of Paul Trevor’s In Your Face series opens at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol today.
