I find Lee Jeffries portraits utterly absorbing. Im always looking at peoples eyes and the detail and emotion that he manages to capture is genius. and what a great story too...
Having previously been a sports photographer Jeffries chance meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art. The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States.
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