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Photographer of the Week

I chose to research photographer Lee Jeffries for this assignment. The reason I chose Lee Jeffries is because his photos really caught my eye. They are so distinctly his work and I think that is really cool for a photographer to have. His "claim to fame" is photographing black and white images of homeless people all around the world. My favorite picture of Jeffries is the one below. This photo, like many of Jeffries work shows so much emotion. This one is a little different because most of them focus on the subjects eyes but I really like how this one shows so much emotion without even needing to see the eyes. This photo is actually of a homeless sex worker without the wig she usually wears.  

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Photo taken from DailyMail.com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608543/Photographer-Lee-Jeffries-uncovers-haunting-human-face-drug-addiction-homelessness-poverty.html

Lee Jeffries got the idea of photographing homeless people when he came across a young homeless girl while running a half marathon in London and he tried to sneak a photo of the girl and she caught him and got very upset. He then apologized and decided he wanted to share with the world what homeless people are really like. The world today sees the homeless as these monsters or people to stay away from but Jeffries wants to shift that perspective by telling these peoples stories through portraits of them. He also auctions his work at charities to raise money for the homeless. 

You can find out more about him and see more of his work here!
https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/lee-jeffries/

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