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Photo reportage: high tide in Holland

7 February 2021
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Hoogwater aan de Waal in de uiterwaarden van Heerewaarden © Michiel Bles

Photography, news report




Project info: As water levels rise in Dutch rivers, I made a visual report of a Dutch couple living in the floodplains of the Waal river. .
 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Photography
 
My role: Idea and photography
 
Languages: Dutch

 
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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
  • Living conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps are bad. Houses are poorly maintained. Armed violence is day to day business in the camps
  • Young children are influenced by the arms they see around them
  • Children have little place to play in camps like Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss. All are located in the south of Lebanon, not far from the border Israelian border
  • Next to Palestinians, Syrians now find a temporary home in Lebanon's refugee camps
  • In Safe Spaces children find a way to release stress and tension by dance and theatre performances
  • Dutch NGO War Child organises these activities in close cooperation with local partner organisations
  • By drawing and writing children and young people have an outlet to cope with their experiences and find a way to temporarily escape the daily pressure they live under
  • War Child founder Willemijn Verloop visits a creative workshop in Ein el Helweh, one of the most overcrowded refugee camps of Lebanon
  • Dutch singer Marco Borsato is War Child's goodwill ambassador. In one of the countless alleyways of the Sabra and Shatila camp he experiences the physical limitations of living in a refugee camps
  • Sports is an essential tool for children to learn to deal with violent experiences, to gain trust again and to learn how to cooperate

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.

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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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Gulu carwash

16 February 2017
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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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Idle indulgence

20 December 2015
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Idle indulgence, an ongoing photo series

  • Numana, Italia, 2018, From the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved Numana, Italia, 2018, From the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved
  • Berlin, Germany, 2018, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved Berlin, Germany, 2018, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved
  • Porto, Portugal, 2018, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved Porto, Portugal, 2018, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved
  • Budapest, Hungary, 2017, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved Budapest, Hungary, 2017, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved
  • Porto, Portugal, 2018, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved From the series 'Idle Indulgence' Photography © Michiel Bles / all rights reserved
  • Wijk aan Zee, Holland, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles, all rights reserved Wijk aan Zee, Holland, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles, all rights reserved
  • Mexico City, Mexico, 2015, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles, all rights reserved Mexico City, Mexico, 2015, from the series 'Idle Indulgence' © Michiel Bles, all rights reserved

Indulgence by Michiel Bles

Project info: In times of work pressure, stress and our newly acquired need to be in touch 24/7, room and time for indulgence are diminishing. This photo series explores situations and persons who take time for enjoyment. Forget about time, being idle.

Exercising, as French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, political writer and activist Paul Lafargue stated, the right the right to be lazy. These progressively scarce moments are captured in this ongoing photo project.

 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Photography
 
Languages: –

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Photo series: musing on the ferry

1 May 2015
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Photo series of Amsterdam ferry men

Project info: No less that 80 times Amsterdam ferrymen and women go up and down the IJ canal each shift. Each day, each week. 80 times the same 5 minute passage. 40 times a view on the same quay.

A few meters above the passenger deck, they look down on the cargo disembarking their vessel. A couple of minutes when docked allow for a moment of woolgathering.

When the buzzer sounds, the mesmerizing is over and a new crossing is about to begin.

Is this the most peaceful or the most dreary job in the world? ‘Musing on the ferry’ is a visual quest for the answer to this question.

Client: Autonomous

Media: Photography

Languages: –


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More photography by Michiel Bles

16 February 2015
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Have a look at more photography projects via blessedshots.com

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