Brightly coloured speedos. Factor two sun cream. Lounging with a cocktail and cigarette by a chlorinated pool while the kids learn archery. This astonishing archive of nostalgic images of British tourists abroad were taken during the heyday of the package holiday.
Trevor Clark was the first British photographer to document the new hotels rising in Mallorca and in so doing he captured the camp and joyful atmosphere of a bygone world of holidaymakers making the most of cheap charter flights, Mediterranean sun and all-you-can-eat buffets. His son, Jake Clark, has compiled a book entiled The Package Holiday using some of Trevor’s great photographs.
The late Trevor Clark began his photographic career as an assistant in a London studio. After National Service with the Royal Air Force and working on cruise ships as a promotional photographer, he returned to London and, in his own words "...eased into the world of advertising and fashion photography..."
As his studio was in Soho, the centre of the burgeoning pop music industry in the 60s, he photographed all of the up and coming rock and pop stars of the day for magazines and promotional material. In 1968, Clark relocated to Mallorca. Several of Trevor's images have been selected and displayed by London's National Portrait Gallery.