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© Lee Jeffries, Feb. 2012, Photos of Miami’s Homeless by Lee Jeffries

#1: No name given. 5th Street, Downtown, Feb. 3, 2012
#2: Latoria. Overtown, Feb. 6, 2012
#3: No name given. Ocean Drive, South Beach, Feb. 3, 2012
#4: Calvin. Overtown, Feb. 7, 2012

It was a poignant time for Jeffries to be in Miami. The Sunshine State held its Republican primary on Jan. 31., and the following day, contest winner and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney said in an interview that he was “not concerned about the very poor” because “we have a safety net there.” In Miami, the photographer documented some of the city’s most impoverished—many of whom have fallen through the “safety net” Romney described and find themselves homeless, living on the streets. As he does on every trip, Jeffries met and spent time with people on an individual basis—listening to their life stories, taking their portraits and trying to help them in any way he could. (read more)

See Jeffries’ earlier work on here.

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