Michel Mees
Photographic Works 1995-2012
His most recent publication Meet and Greet is an impressive hardcover retrospective covering the years 1995 to 2012. As the title suggests, the photographs offer a slice of life beyond the public persona. Among those featured you’ll find an older and pensive Debbie Harry caught at sundown; Maxi Jazz in abattoir ambiance; the menacing looks of a Massive Attack whose outright hostility is almost palpable. You’ll also find British rapper Dizzee Rascal under whose tough demeanour Mees found someone ‘quite amiable’; or a no less colourful personality: the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands whom Mees photographed at his residential palace. Mees gives it to you as it is. ‘At the end of the day I’m the guy with the camera. That’s it.’ Nothing less.
Michel Mees is a commercial photographer specialising in music and portrait photography. He shoots editorial, advertising and corporate assignments. He is based in The Hague.
