In Your Face
Oct 23, 2018
2 minutes
by Paul Trevor
During the1970s Paul Trevor spent much of his time drinking tea, sleeping on sofas and photographing strangers. Having abandoned his job as an accountant at the age of 25 he, along with Nicholas Battye, Diane Olson and Alex Slotzkin, co-founded the Exit Photography Group. Each of the members had a keen interest in social issues in the UK, and in 1974 they produced a small booklet, a portrait of London's last dock community. Soon afterwards Slotzkin left the group and Chris Steele-Perkins joined it, having responded to an advert for new members that he saw pinned to a wall in The Photographers' Gallery.
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