Manchester’s Lee Jeffries has just won Digital Camera Magazine’s photographer of the year for a picture he took of a homeless man on the city’s streets. The judges said of the image:

Lee’s remarkable image is simultaneously moving and troubling. By peeling away the superficial veneer of modern British society, it forces the viewer to evaluate their own position in the social hierarchy of the age and confront some uncomfortable truths.

It is a gritty, poetic image which tells a long and painful story. You can see it below (bottom row, fourth from the left) as part of Lee’s flickr gallery. Click through to that gallery and view the series as a full screen slideshow to really appreciate the beauty in the detail.