Homeless: The Exhibition gathers Lee Jeffries’s portrait photography of homeless people within an explicitly exhibition-oriented publication. Issued by Punto Marte in 2014, the book is defined by a narrow and consequential conjunction: the individual portrait, the social condition named by its title, and the transfer of an exhibited body of work into book form.

The emphasis on portraiture is central. Rather than approaching homelessness as an abstract category or presenting a broad institutional survey, the volume directs attention toward people represented before the camera. That choice gives the work its seriousness: social circumstance remains inseparable from the image, yet the portrait format asks the viewer to consider one human presence at a time. The title’s formulation—“The Exhibition”—also preserves the project’s connection to public display, locating the book between photographic monograph and exhibition record.

The publication is a bilingual Italian-English illustrated hardcover of 116 pages. Its nearly square dimensions, approximately 28.8 by 28.7 centimetres, provide a substantial field for a portrait-led project while maintaining the coherence of a self-contained volume. The bilingual presentation broadens its editorial frame without displacing photography as the principal means of address.

For collectors, the book’s importance rests not on unsubstantiated claims of scarcity, but on the specificity of what it documents: a defined Lee Jeffries project devoted to homelessness, preserved in an exhibition-related format by its original publisher. It warrants attention in collections concerned with contemporary portraiture, socially engaged photography, and the ways exhibition projects are reformulated for the printed page. The combination of concentrated subject, bilingual context, and clearly bounded presentation makes it a useful reference point within Jeffries’s published work.