The Sunday market is a kind of street theatre: spontaneous and highly visual. Capturing a contrast between the energy of the people buying and selling and the run-down, pre-gentrification East End, these images offer a glimpse into the area before its dramatic social change. Compelling, vibrant, humorous and heartfelt, Paul Trevor''s photography brings to life a diverse, thrumming city that feels both faraway and familiar. Motivated by a keen social impulse, self-taught photographer Paul Trevor spent many years during the ''70s and ''80s capturing life in London''s markets. His photographs have been exhibited internationally since 1970.
Paul Trevor's extreme close-ups, made spontaneously on the streets of east London, capture Britain's perennial social divide. They contrast the people in The City with those in the nearby market of Brick Lane. Shot during Thatcher's reign, the imagery is as fresh and relevant today as it was then --
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