Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark Cohen’s shots from the hip, Trevor wanted to show us people as they are.
“The idea was to say something about the two places without having to show what people did,” says Trevor. “The story would be in people’s faces. Needing a closeup approach, the project involved me in a new way of making photographs.”
Paul Trevor took his closeups on the streets of London between 1977 and 1992.
Having left his job as an accountant, Trevor was driven by a social impulse, and first exhibited internationally in 1978. Five years earlier, he co-founded the Exit Photography Group, which produced documentary books and a series of exhibitions, including the stellar photographs of life in Liverpool.
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