Lee Jeffries, accountant, amateur photographer and awareness-raiser (and fund-raiser) from Bolton, Lancs. Interview here . Surprisingly even on photography websites he is slaughtered by other photographers for these pictures. Their reflex criticism seems a direct throwback to the sort of ethical grandstanding that became prominant in the1970s. Originally posited by academics from traditional fine art and upper middle class social backgrounds whose sensibilities made them innately mistrustful of what they considered a shabby and inconsequential medium. One that was in fact just too much of the people, for the people and by the people . It didn't have the cultural stature of painting. It was practiced by tradespeople, or faceless technicians and artisans, amateurs, photojournalists, pornographers and, perhaps worst of all, the great seething mass of the public itself recording key moments in their own lives. But there is a long history of photography working for social change,