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Oct 2015 back issue
by Paul Trevor
Like You've Never Been Away looks at childhood in Liverpool in 1975. The work only emerged in 2011 as a result of
an email...
In 1975 I spent six months in Liverpool as one of three photographers of the Exit Photography Group collaborating on
a long-term project about Britain's inner cities. We photographed and recorded interviews in London, Birmingham,
Newcastle, Glasgow, Liverpool and Belfast.
Survival Programmes: In Britain's Inner Cities was published in 1982.
Only a small fraction of the photographs we made was used in the book. After publication many unused images
gradually faded from memory in the wake of other projects and commitments.
In 2008 I received an email from someone I'd photographed as a 13-years-old boy in 1975. "If you are the same Paul
as I remember I would love you to contact me because I would love to see some of the photos if they still exist." This
led to the work from that time being revisited and, in 2011, exhibited and published - most of it for the first time.
Lodge Lane, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Haigh Street, Everton, Liverpool, 1975.
Sandon Street, Liverpool, 1975.
Crosbie Heights, William Henry Street, Everton, Liverpool, 1975.
Cullen Close, Everton, Liverpool, 1975.
Spekeland Grove, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
St Bernard, Kingsley Road, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Rosebery Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Kingsley Road, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Myrtle Street, Liverpool, 1975.
Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
Mozart Street outing, Ainsdale, 1975.
Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
William Henry Street, Everton, Liverpool, 1975.
Haigh Heights, Haigh Street, Everton, Liverpool, 1975.
Kids' den, Mozart Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, 1975.
