“Lino Hellings”

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). 

Qalandia -  All spaces are very marginal What we mean, it is all is just a little bit used. A little bit of business, a little bit of industry, almost no children…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Dhaka -  It’s amazing how resilient the people are that you meet on the street here in Bangladesh. They are living under conditions that many of us would not endure for…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

To set up your shoe repair shop on less than a square meter in the middle of the sidewalk while pedestrians squeeze themselves past you, requires a high degree…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

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…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

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’…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Rua Barão de Itapetininga Sao Paulo …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Unintentional New Urban Undefined Space. Lino Hellings the 12 of April Rotterdam Pattern inside/out.…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

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…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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

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…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab