Participating Artists Press Agency
“Migrationpapa”
Saturday 15th of August 2020 – 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
Sao Paulo -
Detail from the front door of the block of flats where the MST – Movimento dos Sem Teto/ Homeless Movement Downtown São Paulo is hosted. Homeless people struggling to obtain…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
This is a church that korean made in “Bom Retiro” - Korean Peace Presbyterian Church. This neighborhood is always in change. First came the italians (1920), second the jews (after…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
If you come from China or Japan, whatever. “Liberdade” is a Migration-Brazilian neighborhood.…
Ines Correa –
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
Rotterdam -
As Erwin and his family prepare a remigration to Surinam they have started to pack stuff in boxes to send of to Surinam through one of the businesses in shipping…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
Building dominated by the MST, a homeless movement. The companies want to “revitalize", in other words, buy the old buildings to make modern buildings.…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Sao Paulo -
When someone goes to a place, he carries with him things he likes. When he arrives, there are things there that he learns. This paper is written in Japanese or…
Ines Correa –
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 -
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
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 -
Cycling through the Tarwewijk in the dark I start to recognize people and they start to recognize me. Margot, a slim lady asking for money, being homeless. In fact she…
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
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 -
In the back you see Arthur the paperman. Here the builders gather. When there are around ten the minibus leaves. What is the job you are going to do I…
Lino Hellings –
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…
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 -
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
Sao Paulo -
The most interesting thing about this neighborhood in Sao Paulo is that we find koreans, jews, bolivian and brazilian from Sao Paulo or from other parts of Brazil, all of…
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 -
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
Sao Paulo -
Day off, or not. There are millions unemployed people in Sao Paulo streets.…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
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
Sao Paulo -
These Chinese came to Brazil a short time ago. They don’t speak English or Portuguese. They sell hats made in China. R$ 10,00 each. This is very cheap.…
Ines Correa –
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