Photography

Background story: growing up in the refugee camps of Lebanon

21 December 2018
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  • Sabra and Shatila refugee camp. Home of massacres in the past. Now a barren place to live. Only a few miles from downtown Beirut

Reportage of children living in the Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss refugee camps of Lebanon

Project info: Hundreds of thousands Palestinian refugees live in refugee camps in South Lebanon. Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss have been the makeshift home of generations of Palestinians who have fled the violence in Gaza and the West Bank. In 2010 and 2012 I visited the camps in Lebanon to document the lives of children living in these dire conditions.

Together with founder of the Dutch NGO War Child Holland and its goodwill ambassador Marco Borsato I interviewed and portrayed children and their parents. The pictures, reportages, background stories and video reports have been and are still used in War Child’s printed media, website, social media and advocacy reports.

 
Client: War Child
 
Media: Photography
 
Languages: –

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Background story: Los Valientes/the braves

21 December 2018
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Five brave, aspiring photojournalist from Latin America face major challenges expressing their opinions. Prejudice, intimidation, violence, it's part of their daily job in Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador.

Background photo stories

 
Project info: Five brave, aspiring photojournalists from Latin America face major challenges expressing their opinions. Prejudice, intimidation, violence, it’s part of their daily job in Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador. This long scroll honours these young professional photographers and video reporters.

 
Client: RNW Media

 
Media: Photography, webdesign
 


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Street photography by Michiel Bles

3 November 2018
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As a professional multimedia maker with a background in cultural sociology, I’m captivated by the continuous interplay between humans and their social environment. Whether these interactions are inspiring, confrontational or amusing, the meeting between the individual and its surroundings creates a fascinating playing field.


The ability of humans to deal with, build upon, take advantage of or simply enjoy the world they live in, is what intrigues me. It is what I love to capture in my street photography.

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Corporate portrait photography and web design

6 August 2018
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Corporate portrait photography and web design

Project info: For business coach ‘Lieke Coacht’ I did the corporate photography and web design. By combining web design and color grading of the photography we created a sharp, distinctive corporate image. By working with a newly developed single minded message, the website forms the basis for new business generation of Lieke Coacht.
 
Client: Lieke Coacht
 
Media: Photography, web
 
My role: Shoot, selection, post production, web design and copy editing
 
Visit the website of business coach Lieke Coacht (in Dutch)
 

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Staff portraits Radio Netherlands Worldwide

17 November 2017
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Portrait photography Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Project info: Portrait series of members of the editorial team of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. These editors and producers work for the China, Latin America, Africa, and Middle East desks. Goal of this staff portraits series was to have a consistent visual presentation of the RNW team.
 
Client: RNW Media
 
Media: Photography
 
Languages: –

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RNTC iPad training for journalists

14 November 2017
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/ Categories: (Corporate) event photography / Recent projects by Michiel Bles / RNTC

Corporate event photography

Project info: International journalists and journalism students are trained on the use of iPad in their journalistic work. This photo series shows the activities of the journalists from Egypt, DR Congo, Nepal and other countries. The iPad training course is organized by RNTC in Hilversum. The photo reportage will be used on RNTC’s website, social media en corporate print outlets.
 
Client: RNTC
 
Media: Photography
 
My role: Shoot, selection and post production
 

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Concert photography

15 August 2017
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Concert photography of shows at North Sea Jazz, Mundial and So What’s Next festival

Project info: Concert photography for various outlets at North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam, Mundial festival in Tilburg and So What’s Next jazz festival in Eindhoven (Holland).
 
Client: Various
 
Media: Photography
 
Languages: –

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Gulu carwash

16 February 2017
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/ Categories: Autonomous / Background stories / reportage / Photography / Street photography

Photo series of a makeshift carwash in Gulu, Northern Uganda

Project info: When the heat of the day leaves town and the sun gets low, men gather at the washing bay in Gulu. At this roadside carwash against a tropical backdrop, cars, trucks and motor bikes get their daily clean-up.

Client: Autonomous

Media: Photography

Languages: –

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