Paul Trevor came to Liverpool in 1975 as part of the ‘Survival Programmes’ project, which looked at inner city deprivation. The young snapper spent several months recording family life on the fringes of the city centre, concentrating in Granby and Everton. Among the terraced streets and high rise flats, Paul captured images of a community defiant and proud despite a backdrop of mass unemployment and poverty.
The BBC website reports :
Photographers across Merseyside are being urged to “capture Liverpool” and take part in the city’s first international photography festival.
Look11 will feature exhibitions of work from around the world as well as talks, seminars and community workshops.
But organisers of the event are also running a competition, open to anyone interested in photography, that takes the city itself as the theme.
Hundreds of entries are expected and ten £500 prizes are on offer.
The BBC article reports that, “The festival’s broad theme will be photography as a call to action and is set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s Year of Social Justice.”
Visit the Look11 website here. It looks really exciting.
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