Life for most of us can be carefully—if unintentionally—structured to avoid confrontation with the sea of human misery, despair and hopelessness around us. Whatever his intention, British photographer Lee Jeffries is interrupting the arrangement.

See a short gallery of his work, which features haunting portraits of the down and out taken in London, Rome and New York, here. –ARK

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