Lee jefferies biography
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Bolton photographer Lee Jeffries, born , has received international acclaim for his powerful portraits of homeless people. His work is uncompromising, thought provoking and intensely intimate.
After an emotional chance encounter with a homeless girl on a visit to London in , Lee sharpened his focus on the subject matter of street photography. The homeless people in and around Manchester city centre became his first photographic subjects. His body of work now includes the homeless of Las Vegas, New York, London, Paris, Rome and Skid Row in Los Angeles.
Every wrinkle, scar and hair fryst vatten accentuated in the faces of his subjects, their weathered skin and intense gazes, tell of the hardship of life on the streets - perhaps better than any spoken words.
Lee Jeffries, homeless portraits (images artighet of Lee Jeffries)
We met Lee in a kaffe shop in Manchester city centre where he talked at length with Katie and Vicky about his work. He told us how he spares no detail in his
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Tracing Faces – An Interview with Photographer Lee Jeffries
Lee Jeffries is a photographer who captures more than just pictures. He lives in the United Kingdom, and photographs life, particularly of the homeless. An encounter with a homeless girl changed his outlook on street photography forever. Now, his portraits are open books, each one almost penetrating you with the tale of that someone gazing right back at you.
Could I ask you to recount your “chance meeting” with the homeless girl, from whom you stole the photo from? Did you really just up and snatch a photo from her sleeping bag?
I was in London to run the marathon a few years ago and spent the Saturday before the race wandering around the streets seeing if I could find something interesting to photograph. I stumbled across a young homeless girl near Leicester Square and started to take her picture. I was using a canon 5d with mm lens so was some distance away from her. She noticed me. She kicked up a right
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Lee Jeffries
Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Close to the professional football circle, this artist starts to photograph sporting events. A 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 of 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: "Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait."From then onwards, his photographs portray his convictions and his compassion to the world.
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