“Rotterdam”

Young people 2

Rotterdam -  This young mother buys her groceries cheap in the mini-supermarket of the Sheikh family and the Bas van der Heijden across the street. Her pram is expensive, this is the latest version of a very hip model and costs around 1000 Euro.
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

Young people 1

Rotterdam -  It’s 1 pm. Three young people hanging around the afro-cosmetics-wig-international phonecall-shop. The boy with the leather jacket is complaining about something. It’s not clear what bothers him. Life in general…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

Young entrepreneurs 2

Rotterdam -  Sanne Luijben graduated from art school in 2009. From the south she moved to Tarwewijk. Sanne likes Tarwewijk because of its international atmosphere. Houses are cheap too. She recently had…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

Young entrepreneur

Rotterdam -  Young Mr. Bhoendie has been working here for eleven years now. His father and mother bought this little restaurant fifteen years ago. His mother cooks Surinamese, Hindu, Chinese, Carribean and…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

work/leisure 2

Rotterdam -  DRESS CODE: DECENT it says at the bottom. Makes me wonder what that means. And to whom the dress code applies.…
Maurice Bogaert – Rotterdam Lab

What are you thinking?

Rotterdam -  Are you bored, girlfriend? [sorry to bother you]…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis – Rotterdam Lab

Volunteer

Rotterdam -  ‘It makes me happy to help others,’ Ali Toptas says, ‘I remember when my mother and brothers and sisters and me moved here, coming from Turkey, joining may father…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

tradition 2

Rotterdam -  Two towers on a 200 square meter play ground. It’s 4 pm, there is not one child playing. In Dutch cities, there are many of these so called Playground Associations…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

working / waiting

Rotterdam -  Working means waiting a lot of times.…
Robin van 't Haar – Rotterdam Lab

work/leisure 1

Rotterdam -  A trompe l'oie at the entrance of a strip bar / peepshow. At first glance I was triggered by the image of a girl with blue nail polish behind a…
Maurice Bogaert – Rotterdam Lab

What a waste...

Rotterdam -  There are many signs in the city that are a bit peculiar, like the one on this bin. I would describe the sign as a ‘do not walk here’ sign…
Erika Blikman – Rotterdam Lab

Visible / non-visible

Rotterdam -  This says: ‘All our articles are visibly and non-visibly marked for theft.’ But all you see is a empty shops without any articles at all.…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis – Rotterdam Lab

tradition 1

Rotterdam -  Traditional Dutch churches and believers are becoming extinct species. This is a spire of a former reformed church in Tarwewijk. It is now the home of a church called Victory…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

working / waiting

Rotterdam -  Working means waiting a lot of times.…
Robin van 't Haar – Rotterdam Lab

Words and public space 2

Rotterdam -  This may be the weirdest sign I have ever seen in our Rotterdam ‘Attempts to regulate with written words-collection’ so far. It is put on a window of an empty…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

Walk the Dog

Rotterdam -  Rule one: no obligation to clear out the shit Rule two: Keep the dogs on the string. The little logo on the left around the dogshit says 'legally deposited'…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Twinkle

Rotterdam -  Education store Crooswijk, called Twinkle in your eye. You don’t have to do parenting alone. Twinkeltje is a place where parents and educators can go with questions about the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

TOS

Rotterdam -  TOS  (at) Home On the Street (HOS in English). TOS takes care of the social climate in the public space in several Dutch cities. By organising activities for inhabitants…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

working

Rotterdam -  Four road workers in Rotterdam.…
Maurice Bogaert – Rotterdam Lab

Wild bike parking

Rotterdam -  Bike placed in forbidden area creates question around who or what should occupy space in Rotterdam. Which item has more power: the warning post or the bike? Maureen Kamphuis, the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Volunteer work 2

Rotterdam -  Ali Toptas tells me why there are no children in the play ground I saw the day before yesterday. There is a brand new play ground, also not far from…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa

Trying to control

Rotterdam -  many efforts have been made to get the situation under control in the Tarwewijk. In this street the government has put up signs saying: NO DOPE SMOKING  due to…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Together 2

Rotterdam -  Two balconies in pensioners home ‘ Harmonie’ (Harmony). One with a Dutch flag, the other with a satellite dish, allowing her to watch TV shows from all over the world…
Nies Medema – Migrationpapa