Paul Trevor

London, 1975. Picture and accompanying text (C) Paul Trevor

Childhood scene - from a time before the city got into a hi-8 state...
hung up on the line... living on the 25th floor... enamoured with widescreen glamour...
Before electrified air... digital melancholia... meet-them-in-the-flesh nostalgia...
sound bites fights... Before soap star charisma... celebrity outpourings...
struggles for brand identity... tabloid tyranny... pulp pop predictability...
revved-up redundancy... mega-mediocrity... Before obituary page rage...
traffic light spite... Before it became strong enough to stand on its own two nikes...
Before it started squealing like a jackie in a jacuzzi...
pulling its bruthas and sistas out of the ghettos...
shifting an enormous amount of units... living on borrowed time...
on costed gimmicks... as seen on tv...
These pictures are from a time before...

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