Urban Soul Farmer

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Photograph by Lee Jeffries

Latoria. Overtown, Miami, Fla. Feb. 6, 2012.

On view at the Museo Di Roma in Trastevere, Italy through Jan. 12, 2014: Homeless by Lee Jeffries

This world-premiere exhibition presents the extraordinary work of Lee Jeffries, a self-taught photographer strongly influenced by the religious or spiritual and tolerant aspect of the city of Rome, where he took many of the most significant images on display. Jeffries gave these people something more than personal dignity. He gave them a light in their eyes that depicts transcendence, a glimmer of light at the gates of Eden, so to speak.

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