Michael Bou-Nacklie Events Portfolio

Michael Bou-Nacklie International Photojournalist MA Photography - 2014 BA Intl. Communication (Journalism) - 2007 10 years experience Middle East/Europe market

Rapper Narcicyst performs at Pearl, in Beirut, Lebanon during a performance of Middle-East hip hop.

Organizers at a Saudia Airlines booth greet Minister of Tourism, Sultan Bin Salman, at an exhibition in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

A Palestinian Christian stands at the entrance of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, prior to a Christians United For Israel conference on July 22, 2014, in Washington D.C.

Emily Baxter, 21, peeks from behind a column at the Lincoln Memorial during a polar vortex in Washignton D.C. on April 4, 2014.

At a hip-hop event organized by Revolt Radio, DJ Lethal Skillz spins tracks while rappers from around the Middle-East perform.

A waiter fills a glass ahead of a private VIP event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abu Ali poses for a portrait in his store in Mukheil in Asir, Saudi Arabia; one of the last remaining traditional markets left in the region.

Zahra Bundakji drinks moonshine alcohol at a private party in Saudi Arabia, where alcohol and mixing with members of the opposite sex are illegal.

The family behind the Laurel Valley Creamery in Gallipolis, Ohio pose for a portrait outside their home in 2011. Nick No- lan, a former IBM engineer, “got sick of working in Florida in ‘87 and being involved in drugs, so I just came back to my grandfathers farm and started his dairy farm,” he said through his thick red beard early on a Friday morning. Using his engineering train- ing he converted the family dairy farm into a cheese making business with his wife Celeste taking care of cheese production after Nick has milked the cows early every morning.

Celeste Nolan takes a brief breather as her children return home from school in Gallipolis, Ohio. “Nick milks the cows early in the morning, by about noon he’s milked the cows and wheeled the container full of fresh milk into our cheese barn for me to start making whatever cheese I want to make. By about 4PM the kids come home and I have to take care of them.”

A cattle drover shares a moment early in the morn- ing as he prepares the elderly horse for a few hours of cattle driving in Fort Worth, Texas. The Stockyards in Fort Worth is the only place in the world where cattle drives are held twice a day all year long.

A cattle drover shares a moment early in the morn- ing as he prepares the elderly horse for a few hours of cattle driving in Fort Worth, Texas. The Stockyards in Fort Worth is the only place in the world where cattle drives are held twice a day all year long.

A cattle drover checks his pocket watch while speaking with tourists in the Fort Worth Stockyards, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Two cattle drovers prepare a pen for long horn cattle and share a light-hearted moment early on a spring day, in Fort Worth, Texas.

“Never a dull moment” Nick Nolan chuckles as he chops surplus wood outside the family cheese farm. His sons Edgar, 8, and Gus, 11, play on an unused water tower beside him “When daddy is out we always want to out with him,” Edgar says through a smile missing two front teeth.

Lilah Nolan is given some unfinished cheddar from a drum in the family cheese barn. Unfinished cheddar has a strong bitter taste, which Lilah immediately spit out on the floor.

A personal project documenting Luchadore in Oaxaca, Mexico

Museum curator and local historian, Daghdoug stokes a fire in Tanomah, Saudi Arabia, as part of a documentary about vanishing tribes on the Saudi/Yemen border.

Kira Slepchenko, a research graduate student at Ohio University’s Heritage School of Osteopathic Medicine, adjusts apparatus during an experi- ment analyzing brain tissue as part of her alzheimers research.