“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). 

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

Ramallah -  Out of this money machine you get Israeli shekels because that is the official currency here. That puts Israel in a position to control the economy here as they give…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Israel is the one who is controlling and distributing the water in Palestine, from Palestine. On the roof of all buildings you see the black water containers. Some houses get…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

The rich do not need to enter the streets. They fly from one rooftop to the other.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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

A person has managed to build a brick house. A huge step forward compared to the houses on poles on the back made of bamboo and thatched panels. The poorest…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

The financial district is in development as you can see. There are building that are half way like this one, buildings that only have a billboard showing a bright future…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

While photographing we walk through the neighborhood. A group of 10 people with cameras (plus a filmmaker) it falls on. From different windows we are addressed by friendly ladies. This…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

You can read this on several houses in our street. It tells the story of a deceased person with many children who cannot agree on the legacy. To prefend one…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

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

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

Prins Clausplein. What can we do with this vacant land? PAPA lets its correspondents in other parts of the world have a look under their fly overs for alternative ‘businessconcepts’…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Prins Clausplein. The first washingmachine drum in the vegetables gardens I saw, made me think mmm quite untidy to leave this object lying around. Then I saw every garden had…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

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

Who is watching all these movies? Apparently the camera suggests to be 360 degrees. It is not. It is known only a percentage of the cameras work. Strange idea the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Wearing a headscarf does not mean you cannot look fashionable. The speciality here is to make a large hairdo that shows despite the scarf. The lady is smoking a water…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Prins Clausplein. Originally from the Dutch Antilles in the Caribbian these inhabitants of Rotterdam have their vegetable garden in The Hague. Hospitable in a way which is rather un-Dutch. I…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Flatbuildings can be as skinny as the base of a single house. But more often it is plots of four houses that hosts a new skygraper. The view on the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Just saw a lady carefully spreading the crusts of bread after she dropped her waste in the basket. All along the streets you find these baskets. Sometimes the size of…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

As the standard Orelhão (big ear) was occupied at that moment, the girl decided to use the phone booth meant for wheelchair users. This public facility is very sophisticated. Take…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

There is a run on the brown chairs as you have to stand up for the old (from 60), pregnant, cripple or parents with a small child if you sit…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Next to the Catadores (the informal rubbish collectors’ coop) men from the (neighbor) hood have created their own open-air gym. Directly under the traffic viaducts, it is a good initiative…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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

Every foreigner walking freely in the streets of Ramallah is a potential ambassador of Palestine. So you are welcomed to the country many times a day. That is not out…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab