“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). 

Bishkek -  Right at the start of our first wild walk we find this group of men in this little house. Apparently it is a stage as well. Several rows of benches…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Sao Paulo -  It must do something to your frame of mind to celebrate christmas with these winterlike accessories in this hot wheater. Maybe this is the fundament for the Brazilian frame of…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

The very first thing you notice as a foreigner are the murals and other expressions in paint and/or sculpture everywhere in the city. As large scale ads are forbidden in…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Everything is political here. If you call it Occupation it is a conflict between Palestine and Israel. If you see it as Colonialism there is more hope. Israel is coloniali…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

the houses in the refuge camp are not designed by an architect. People build whatever they need. Sometimes decorate it sometimes leave it open.…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Herring we eat raw here in the Netherlands.In the back you see an image of the church tower, covering up for the real church tower to be renovated.  …
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

We are entering the financial district (in development). There are little houses with armed Palestinian guards around. I saw different sorts of armed forces. The police, the army but also…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Great choice from fish all over the world. Some wild some cultivated. Lino Hellings 10th of April Rotterdam…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

The yellow temporary sign indicates the street on the right has become a dead-end street. Because of building activities. The little poster says: Hurray! Social destruction! It is a pun…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Prins Clausplein. The area hosts numerous sportsfacilities like a cricketclub. One of the few in the Netherlands. There are football-, korfball-, tennisclubs-, indoorski facilities, horseback ridingschools and a golfcourse. There…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Prinsclaus Flyover where the bicyclepath, the waterway and the railtrack meet. The area under the flyover is the domain of a single fox, crows who have their nests in the…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

We tend to think, or more specifically I presumed all Palestine people were Islamic. That is not the case at all. Here in Ramallah there are ten or more Christian…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

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Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

The many stalls with fresh fruits and vegetables add color to the street of Dhaka. And the taste is so much better then what I am used to eat at…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

How could such peaceful, contemplative people get involved in two recent revolutions (2005 and 2010) and ethnic riots (2010)? I began to understand the mechanism a little after I…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Even more Dutch it is to bring your own lunch in a plastic bag. Probably current buns. Eat it in the street while resting on your ‘rollater’ a four wheel…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

In between the flatbuildings there are a lot of playgrounds. All iron equipments bit rusty but painted in all the colours of the rainbow as well. It reminds of the…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

In Lina Bo Bardi’s Sesc sports and cultural centre you can eat good food that is paid by weight. In the building opposite the dinner hall you can read, play…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

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

Car wash places are semi public. Four or five man cleaning one car at rapid speed. Getting the pieces of cloth of the line wipe the car a few times…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Coloured rosettes on trees under the crossover in the centre median strip between the two traffic lanes. These are rosettes you see on presents at anniversaries. Seen at several places…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Everybody in the shop sees he/she is looked at. A live surveillance camera and probably more effective. Rua Barão de Itapetininga Sao Paulo 30th of November 2009 Lino Hellings…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

In the entrance of the private university where the Human Rights Colloquiem is held you can deposit your waste in five different categories: Paper, plastic, glass, metal and non recycable…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

It is 13:20 when we return. The guard is still there. He keeps record of who is entering and who is leaving the building. We had a exciting walk. We…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab