The Eyeshot Podcast on Street & Documentary Photography
Jul 17, 2026 · 23 min · 13 segments
British photographer Paul Trevor has spent more than fifty years photographing public life, most of it in East London, and now reopens his black-and-white archive as a book that plays. In this Eyeshot…
Paul TrevorGuest
Lucrezia BonarotaHostBorn in London, Paul began photographing in the early 1970s and became one of the most important voices of British photography, both documentary and street photography.
He was the co-founder of the Exit Group Group, whose landmark project, Survival Program, documented lives in Britain's inner cities through photographs and recorded interviews.
Across decades, Paul's work has turned again and again to the street, where the street, though, is never really just like a backdrop.
but it becomes a field of relationships where bodies, glands, class, play, resistance and urban changes emerge through the smallest invisible details.
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Born in London, Paul began photographing in the early 1970s and became one of the most important voices of British photography, both documentary and street photography.
He was the co-founder of the Exit Group Group, whose landmark project, Survival Program, documented lives in Britain's inner cities through photographs and recorded interviews.
Across decades, Paul's work has turned again and again to the street, where the street, though, is never really just like a backdrop.
but it becomes a field of relationships where bodies, glands, class, play, resistance and urban changes emerge through the smallest invisible details.
