Participating Artists Press Agency
Tuesday 18th of February 2025 – page 11
Lino Hellings is the artistic director of PAPA. She developed PAPA in a residency at Photo Press Agency Drik in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and in working with local photographers (with an international status) in PAPA-Labs in Lagos (Nigeria), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Bishkek (Kyrgystan).
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Rotterdam -
There are many shops in shops. That keeps the costs low for everyone. Some of the owners sit, talk and drink Fanta and Cola at the end of the day…
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Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
As soon as the evening falls around five the traffic lights, streetlamps and shopwindows add colour to the grey public space. People come home from work and school and go…
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Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
In the Tarwewijk I do see many barbershops too. So many cultures, so many different kinds of hair and hairstyles do explain the amount of shops. But like in Lagos…
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Migrationpapa
Ramallah -
Every barber in Ramallah uses this kind of drying rack to hang the towels in the sun. Also a good way to reserve a parking place and indicate where the…
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Ramallah Lab
Rotterdam -
Unintentional New Urban Undefined Space.
Lino Hellings the 12 of April Rotterdam Pattern inside/out.…
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Rotterdam Lab
Sao Paulo -
Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompéia, a community centre for sports and culture in Sao Paulo facilitates a good sleep through robust and at the same time soft couches. A after…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Asira ash Shamaliya -
In the middle of all kind of things to be recycled one day, I see this baby carriage from Holland. Bugaboo is the business of the brother of my best…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Rotterdam -
The new policy of the authorities is not to report anymore about the bad things that happen in the Tarwewijk. Radiomaker and DJ Eric does not agree. Bad news and…
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Migrationpapa
Lagos -
The five of us where just about leaving for Lagos Mainland when a group of artists/painters of trucks and busses arrived. AAF is running a project with these ‘grass roots’…
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Lagos Lab
Ramallah -
If you have an Israeli numberplate you can drive straight through Palestine. The highway is only for cars with an Israeli numberplate. Next to the highway is the WALL. On…
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Ramallah Lab
Lagos -
You cannot see it so much but this building is an artpiece in itself. The tables, chairs, the bathroom floor; all the doors are genuine artworks.
It is a pleasure…
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Lagos Lab
Rotterdam -
Inside the Surinamese shop there is another shop a videotheque, your special supplier of Bollywood CDs and DVDs. On the yellow sign on the ceiling it says ‘Do not bring…
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Migrationpapa
Dhaka -
There is no denying: big forces are at work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nature - the climate which causes the flooding of the land. The enormous pollution of the factories…
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Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
At twelve o’clock school finishes. Last night I had a long talk with an Italian business man in my guesthouse. He is working for a firm that develops chemicals…
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Dhaka Lab
Bishkek -
When this man who lives opposite the pipeline finds seven women with cameras on his yard, he inmediately invites us in. We turn down his invitation in a friendly way…
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Bishkek Lab
Sao Paulo -
Follow arrow to park your car in a covered space. Entering what once was the richest part in town, you find a lot of breathing adds. The beautifull apartment…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Most people cook on bottled gas. Specially made carts and bicycles transport the gas to your doorstep. Mobile energy.
Sao Paulo, the 9th of November 2009…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Ramallah -
Most Cars in Ramallah have Palestine number plates. And there are many. Huge cars as well. 4x4 and American pickup trucks. Get a loan at the bank and you can…
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Ramallah Lab
Lagos -
With a handfull of cables and a lot of skills Toye made it work on the slow and unreliable internet connection we have here. Apart from being a good observer…
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Lagos Lab
Rotterdam -
Athur cannot walk but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t make himself usefull. Every morning he gets up at 5 . Collects the free newspapers in the metro station. The minibusses with…
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Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
The Brazilian way of showing pleasure is called alegria. You encounter a lot of vivid talking and laughter here in São Paulo. Here it is the pleasure after a winning…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Lagos -
The Nigerians have a lovely way to deal with all the institutions that deliver badly. They change the letters in the acronyms into new sayings. In this way they made…
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Lagos Lab
Rotterdam -
Godian, our guide for the day, comes from Nigeria, a vast country with numerous natural resources and a population whose size, despite its poverty, makes it an interesting market…
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Rotterdam Lab