London is a beautiful city, a melting pot bursting with diverse people, cultures, movements. In the loud, crowded streets the frenzy of people can’t be unseen – some people, though, often are. They sit on the kerbs, find shelter in lobbies, they daintily (at times, frantically) ask you for a help they’re not always given – it’s the homeless. Photographer Lee Jeffries, based in Manchester, decided not to walk past them.
In an interview for the Time, he spoke about a time he came to London for the Marathon. While wandering in the city, he came across a homeless young girl, that then told him her sad story. The light glimmering in her eyes while she talked ignited a spark in Lee.
Since then, his mission has become portraying homeless people, their condition but especially who they are: their eyes, expressions, wrinkles and story.
“I can’t change their condition, but at least I can try to raise awareness about them. They are people, just like me and you.”
With his amazing pictures, he manages to capture something about these people that’s beyond their status or their condition: their humanity.
His noble mission is far from coming to an end, and you can follow it on his website, Instagram and Facebook.
Or you can go in the streets and decide, for once or for the billionth time, to stop by that someone whose story you don’t know yet, and embark in your own mission.
