Milan, at Diocesan Museum exhibition of Lee Jeffries, the photographer of the poor and marginalized

The Diocesan Museum “Carlo Maria Martini” in Milan is hosting, from January 27 to April 16, 2023, a solo exhibition by British photographer Lee Jeffries (Bolton, 1971), best known as the voice of the poor and marginalized. Curated by Barbara Silbe and Nadia Righi, the exhibition, produced and organized by the Diocesan Museum of Milan, presents about fifty black-and-white and color images that capture the faces of the hidden and invisible humanity that populates the streets of the great metropolises of Europe and the United States.

A self-taught photographer, Jeffries began his career almost by accident, on the day before the 2008 London Marathon when he took a photograph of a young homeless girl sitting in the doorway of a store; reprimanded for doing so without permission, Jeffries stopped to talk to her, to question her about her past, to make a contact that went beyond mere curiosity to delve deep into the soul of the person in front of him. From then on, she began to take an interest in and document the lives of the homeless, moving from the alleys of Los Angeles to the most hidden and dangerous areas of the cities of France and Italy.

Through his gaze and his “spiritual art,” as he usually calls it, Lee Jeffries brings homeless people out of the darkness in which they are confined and seeks to restore light and dignity to every human being. His style is characterized by sharply contrasted close-up shots and very close interactions with his subjects, men and women living on the margins of society whom he meets on the streets of the world.

His most characteristic stylistic feature is that of the portrait, always frontal and close-up, often with dark monochromatic backgrounds that, elaborated with effective work on light and shadow, brings out the faces in their extraordinary expressive power, capable of communicating their suffering, their discomfort and their unhappy condition.

Exhibition hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mondays. Tickets: full 9 euros, reduced 7 euros, school groups and speakers 4 euros. Combined ticket for the Cloisters of Sant’Eustorgio: full 12 euros, reduced 10. For information visit https://chiostrisanteustorgio.it/.

Milan, at Diocesan Museum exhibition of Lee Jeffries, the photographer of the poor and marginalized

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