Exclusive Interview with Lee Jeffries

British photographer Lee Jeffries started photographing homeless people in the streets after meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London.

This encounter changed his artistic approach forever. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.

All About Photo: When did you realize you wanted to be a photographer?

Lee Jeffries: I'm an accountant actually. Photography is something I do when I'm not doing that.

AAP: Where did you study photography?

LJ: Self taught. No formal qualifications whatsoever.

AAP: Do you have a mentor?

LJ: Nope.

AAP: How long have you been a photographer?

LJ: About 5 years now.

AAP: Do you remember your first shot? What was it?

LJ: My first street photograph was a young girl homeless girl in London. The story is all around the net now. My first real photograph was the woman praying in Rome. That's where the artistry began.

AAP: What or who inspires you?

LJ: Emotion. People. Empathy for the suffering of others.

AAP: How could you describe your style?

LJ: My own. If it looks good to me then I'm more than happy. Much more than that though...i have to feel an image. I throw it out if I dont.

AAP: What kind of gear do you use? Camera, lens, digital, film?

LJ:Digital. Old beat up Canon 5d mark 1.

AAP: Do you spend a lot of time editing your images?

LJ: Some take 5 minutes...some take longer...much longer. Depends on my mood. If I'm particularly into an image emotionally I will linger for hours listening to classical music over all the details.

AAP: Favorite(s) photographer(s)?

LJ: James Nachtwey, Stephan Vanfleteren.

AAP: What advice would you give a young photographer?

LJ: Concentrate on shooting an image. There is no substitute for emotion. A $5,000 camera wont save an image nor will hours in PS. You have to capture something from the outset. always get that bit right.

AAP: What mistake should a young photographer avoid?

LJ: Not trusting their instincts.

AAP: An idea, a sentence, a project you would like to share?

LJ: Just completed a year long project for Terrence Malick.

AAP: Your best memory has a photographer?

LJ: Every time I meet somebody on the street. nothing beats being out there.

AAP: If you could have taken the photographs of someone else who would it be?

LJ: My fave image from anyone, anywhere: Katarina Smuraga. Emotion. Genuine or not it has me totally convinced and shakes me to the core each time I view it. I often linger for hours into those watery eyes.

AAP: Anything else you would like to share?

LJ: Exhibition opens in Rome on 18th October at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

Diana Markosian: Father

By Diana Markosian

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 144 pages

Diana Markosian’s Father is an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.

Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographer’s journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. In Markosian’s first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), the photographer recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s. Father uses both documentary photographs and archives of objects, letters, and vernacular images to probe the fifteen years of absence and separation from the photographer’s childhood. In this voyage of self-discovery, Markosian touchingly renders her longing for connection to a man she barely remembers and who asks her, when she finds him, “Why did it take you so long?”

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Pedro Jarque Krebs: WildLOVE

By Pedro Jarque Krebs

Publisher : ‎ teNeues

2025 | 224 pages

Pedro Jarque Krebs presents WildLOVE, his long-awaited second major photo book. With his colorful photography of wild animals, he occupies a special place in wildlife photography. One of the world's most awarded wildlife photographer captures the animals with his camera in a humorous and almost human way. In this way, he builds up an intimate relationship with each animal: WildLOVE.

Pedro Jarque Krebs is a most awarded wildlife photographer with more than 100 awards to his credit. His aim is to show the beauty and diversity of wildlife, but also to draw attention to the problems and fragility of the animal world.

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Ralph Gibson: Photographs 1960-2024

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 552 pages

Travelling widely, Ralph Gibson works primarily in inspired series, associated image reveries in both monochrome and colour, whose titles―The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Days at Sea, and Chiaroscuro―underline the particular poetic sensibility that informs his work. Starting out in 1960 with Dorothea Lange, he made his way to New York in 1967 and was soon considered in the same light as the likes of Larry Clark and Diane Arbus. The photographs and series can of course speak for themselves. But for Gibson there is a philosophy at play behind the image, and in the included short texts he proposes his thesis. Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives―loyal to his Leica, Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. He gets closer to things and meditates on them in a way that only the silence of the image can attempt.Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this book offers the fruit of more than six decades of image-making. From Gibson’s first photographs in San Francisco, Hollywood, and New York in the 1960s right up to the present day, this is the most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed photographer.

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Robert Frank: Portfolio

By Robert Frank

Publisher : Steidl

2025 | 40 pages

Before The Americans redefined documentary photography, a young Robert Frank (1924–2019) arrived in the United States in 1947 with a modest yet pivotal collection of images: his first portfolio. Created to showcase his talent and secure employment, this selection of 40 photographs—taken between 1941 and 1946—offers an intimate look at the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers.

Now reproduced in facsimile for the first time in over a decade, Portfolio captures the essence of Frank’s early vision. Rural Swiss landscapes stand alongside bustling street scenes, antique shops, fine fabrics, and the glow of cinema lights—subjects that hint at the keen observational eye that would later define his work. Also included are images Frank retouched for other photographers, revealing his technical precision.

Designed in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, this edition stays true to Frank’s original presentation, housed in a softcover within a cardboard envelope, just as he would have stored and carried it. In many ways, Portfolio serves as his first photobook, laying the foundation for the sequencing and storytelling approaches that would culminate in masterpieces like The Americans and The Lines of My Hand. More than a collection of early work, it is a testament to the beginnings of a groundbreaking artistic journey.

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