Participating Artists Press Agency
“Migrationpapa”
Wednesday 22nd of May 2019 – page 7
On a Monday morning in November 2010, six photographers in five cities around the world take their cameras to urban neighbourhoods where newcomers arrive. The photos flow into the PAPA website like a wave moving around the world. First from Bangladesh, five hours later from Rotterdam and Lagos – cities in the same time zone. Detroit and São Paulo complete the group another seven hours later. From the first week the photos and captions were projected on the windows of the cultural centre at the entrance to the neighbourhood in Rotterdam. The same will happen in other cities. In this way the inhabitants of the various newcomers neighbourhoods not only get a fresh perspective on their own lives but they also get to see how newcomers in other cities live. Migrationpapa is a PAPA project for Kosmopolis Rotterdam with the generous support of Hivos
Saturday 6th of November 2010
Rotterdam -
An attempt to get it all into one picture, the tensions between the state and the civilian and between the individual and the collective/community.…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
This house and all the other around it, in Helvetia Street, are going to be demolished untill the end of the year. There is a new project for this place…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
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…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
The state and the civilian both do put great effort in exploring ways to improve the conditions for living. Sometimes succesfull, many times not so much. To many rules and…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
If it’s your day off, it’s time to go shopping or if you prefer you can go to a museum or a gallery. You can also just walk the dog…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
São Paulo has law that forbids private signs or advertisements boards to be permanently fixed. It is called called “Clean City Law". As a consequence the boards are placed and…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
When I arrive in the Tarwewijk early in the morning I see groups of dark hooded men standing in the cold under the flyover from the metro station Maashaven. They…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
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…
Lino Hellings –
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…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Six o'clock in the morning the pub next to the Metro station is serving coffee for the ‘bosses’ I think. In the cold night minivans and cars arrive to pick…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
New wood has arrived. The Streetfactory works with used wood. This is scaffolding wood. They do use pallet wood as well. The furniture they make does look good and is…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Our work was shown on location for six weeks from the end of November 2010 till half January 2011.
Sandra Smets, art critic in NRC newspaper Cultural Supplement…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
This shop sells outfits for Hindu weddings. The bride, groom and guests can buy their dresses, jewellery, shoes and handbags in this colourful shop. There is a wide variety of…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Tensions are not necessarily bad. In fact they are good not bad I think. How to balance between the positive and the negative apsects of the rapid change in amounts…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Every few other days the shopowner drives 850 from Rotterdam to Poland to buy the meat, vegetables and other Polish groceries. The shop closes at ten in the evening. When…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
This chinese born in Brazil lives in Liberdade. She’s adapted to the Brazilian way of life. When I was shooting, a brazilian man that was going through said to me:…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
The neighbourhood has a bad name despite the enormous efforts done by the city council to renovate the area. Because of the bad name the houses do not sell and…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Ten years ago Erwin moved to Rotterdam from Surinam with his mother and three brothers. He dreamed of studying Sound and light.From the age of eleven he organised these…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
A lot of effort has been made to improve the neighbourhood. Especially drugs abuse and criminality connected to that gave the Tarwewijk a very bad reputation. Streets with rows of…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
The Dordtse Lane counts numerous small and bigger foodstores and restaurants. This shop is open all night. Unfortunately the owner was shot three weeks ago by a customer he chased…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
Downtown Sao Paulo is through changes. It seems never ending. The project of revitalizing the city is audacious. But first, it is necessary to decide what to do with the…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
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…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
Change always happens, the hard or soft way. Learn of that that’s what you need to think about.…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
In the distance we see the Football stadion of Feijenoord on a sunday evening(afternoon). In the front we see the Tarwewijk’s main traffic vein: de Dordtse laan. You cannot imagine…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa