 He worked with Rodolfo Namias in Milan, Italy and in the later 1920s took lessons at the "Internationale Lichbild Ausstellung" in Berlin, Germany.In 1937 and 1938 he studied photographic technique and illumination in Hollywood, California.In 1939 Blez presented his first personal exhibition, "Fotografías de Joaquín Blez", at an exposition at the Palacio Municipal in Havana.