“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 -  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

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

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

About to leave for the airport. Beye beye! We keep the website open for the PAPA correspondents here for one more week. Then PAPA will move to another continent again…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

In the old village there is an empty plot of land. It has a splendid view on the hills. Imagine a small public garden here with some trees for the…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

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

The carpets are beautiful. Made of natural materials and in bright colours. Like the people in Kyrgyzstan, who seem to be so soft and welcoming. But then again, it can…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

This is where you can deposit your chewing gum as well. On the paradise-like billboards full of promises of what the city will look like in a couple of years…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

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

A way to store your bicycle in the streets. Most bicycles embrace lanternpoles and/or other bicycles in a touching and affectionate way though. ‘Fietstrommel’ sounds like candy box. On the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

When I ask myself why there are so many skinny flatbuildings in Sao Paulo, this picture gives the answer. Everytime a couple of small one or two story high houses…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Call the welder, call the plumber, call the carpenter, call the electrician etc. Other craftsmen advertise in the same way. Sometimes they make a small installation to show off their…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Carpets, bedding and laundry covering all kind of objects in open air. All windows are open.  In my guesthouse I meet an ex militairy man from Oekraine…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall: ‘Bram Ladage, most healthy chips of the Netherlands’…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

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

Prins Clausplein. In the past years the citycouncil has made some great adjustements to make the area more accessible to cyclists and walkers. This bicycle flyover ( or overpass as…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

His friends admire the plastic pistol the little boy has. His future job is clear. In the quarter where I live and work there are small houses where people live…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

You find these stickers in virtually every phone booth in São Paulo: a telephone book for contacting ladies, some of whom might be transvestites. …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

For what reasons do people leave the house/the city/the country they live in? And why do they choose The Tarwewijk as a quarter to live in? One of the explanations…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Knowing Sao Paulo forbid all advertisement in public space you would expect an ‘empty city’. On the contrary not one piece of wall unpainted. Murals all over. The people do…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Everywhere you look, there are bicycles embracing lanternpoles, bridges and each other. Lino Hellings the 7th of April Rotterdam.…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

São Paulo is one of the fastest growing cities of the world. It is doing very well economically. Every block of four one- or two-storey houses that falls into…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Everywhere in Europe there are ‘car-free’ shopping streets with the same chain of shops. H and M for clothng, Footlocker for sportshoes, Dixons for your electronic gears. Lino Hellings 9…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

‘Sick and tired of chewing gum in the city. Rotterdam MUST be clean, intact and safe! WHY? BECAUSE!’ says the text on the rubbish bin. The little white dots…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab