IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a man lying wrapped in blankets in his armchair. Heading - Lives We Cannot Live. 11-6pm open daily. Oxo gallery, admission free. Wed 24th - Sun 28th September 2025. Photographs by Jeremy Jeffs, Presented by the ME Association.

Photo Exhibition: ‘Lives We Cannot Live' by Jeremy Jeffs

‘Lives We Cannot Live’ is a ground-breaking new exhibition featuring photos and stories of people with ME/CFS by photographer Jeremy Jeffs, presented by the ME Association.

It brings identity and visibility to the ME community by highlighting people who suffer with the disease and the devastating impact it has on their lives.

Photographer Jeremy Jeffs himself suffers with ME, and sharing the lived experience with the people who sat for photographs enabled him to build relationships and gain access that may not be possible for other photographers – providing very emotive images and stories.

Event Information

This free event took place from 24th – 28th September 2025 at the Oxo Gallery in London.
The exhibition is now closed, but you can watch a walk through video via the link below.

Watch the Walkthrough Video
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a person lying in bed under the covers with an eye mask and ear protectors on. Next to them is a desk with a food tray on, and on the other side is their wheelchair.

Jeremy Jeffs is a documentary film maker and photographer, with more than 40 broadcast films to his credit. He has been researching and photographing this collection for nearly three years and the series comprises of images of more than 30 people. Some people with ME are so severely affected that they are confined to bed, some are only able to work part time, and many others who are housebound struggle to undertake simple activities of daily living.    

The ME Association is proud to present this exhibition, recognising how vitally important it is in raising awareness of ME/CFS. ME/CFS is multi-systemic disease and around 400,000 people in the UK have this debilitating illness. Symptoms include profound fatigue, sleep disturbance, post-exertional malaise, cognitive difficulties and a range of other symptoms like pain, headaches, nausea and intolerance to lights and noise. 

You can find out more about ME/CFS here
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