Photographer Returns to Trace Liverpool Families

LIVERPOOL.- A photographer who captured life in inner-city Liverpool is set to return Merseyside in a bid to track down the people who starred in his pictures. Paul Trevor came to the city in 1975 initially as part of a project called “Survival Programmes” which looked at inner city deprivation. The young snapper spent several months recording family life across Liverpool on the fringes of the city centre. Among the terraced streets and high rise flats, Paul captured stunning images which portrayed a community defiant and in high spirits despite a backdrop of unemployment and poverty. National Museums Liverpool is set to stage an exhibition of Paul’s pictures next year. Many of his images, of children playing in the street, have never been seen before. And the photographer is keen to trace the faces he captured on film 35 years ago.He said: “I have fond memories of my time spent recording life in

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