Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 14th of November 2024 – page 6
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).
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Bishkek -
Today at sunday I see a lot of men and women carrying babies under their arms. Most of them sleeping. Not this one. In his hand the man holds a…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
Rotterdam -
Recently al lot of Polish people started populating the Tarwewijk. In the evening the quarter fills up with cars carrying Polish numberplates. They do not work in Rotterdam but travel…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Oz Akin Import-Export. Wholesaler’s in gifts-shop, mainly sells suitcases for newcomers. Also quilts, matrasses, carpets and curtains.
Sale due to rebuilding. Rebuilding that is very much like Rotterdam!
Lino Hellings…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
No shops around. All we see are closed shutters. But the fresh bread on the door is a sign of life.…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
In the concrete corridors leading to the platforms of the metro it feels like being in an artwork for me. The shape of the tubes. The modernist seats. On the…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
A new and legão (cool, literally ‘legal’) venue for photography opened today. The first exhibition is showing the gutters of Sao Paulo. It is shot by a collective named…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
How to make a reservation for the parking space in front of your shop? This is one way to do that. Moreover it is a great opportunity to show your…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
A note above the blue chair says it is reserved for obese people. Try to avoid blue chairs. In the metro carriages there is a run on the brown chairs…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Metro green line. Sao Paulo 30th of November 2009. Lino Hellings…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
The laundry is out in the sun. So there are people still living in this village. In my home country the Netherlands the bureaucracy drives me crazy from time to…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
Despite the informality of the job of catadores there is a support organisation that helps the collectives organise themselves. The only principle the collectives have to accept is, work as…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
This catadore cannot become part of the collective. He is sorting out his garbage in the street. He cannot leave his car behind afraid as he is it will be…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Prins Clausplein. Once Stroom, a foundation that promotes art in public space organized a barbecue on this spot for a selected group of artists, architects and citydevelopers. They were send…
Lino Hellings –
Flyoverpapa
It looks like a mouse has eaten its way through the wall. But it is in fact an elderly gentleman who made the tunnels with the jack hammer machine down…
Lino Hellings –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
In corners of the station and beyond you find couples kissing passionately. It does add a swing to live. Brazilian way. Ginga-Jogo de cintura. …
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
It is spring in Sao Paulo. Heavy rains and sunshine alternate. More rain and warmer then in other years make the trees blossom even more intensely. In this season the…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
The quarry for this stone is at the edge of the village. In fact you can use any mountain here as a quarry. It gives the local workers a good…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
In my guesthouse it is all working people staying there. Like me. Mostly doctors and nurses coming from neighbouring countries like Peru, Colombia or other parts of Brazil. There is…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
’Non Stop’ is the central notion to the Users script of Asira ash Samaliya. It is a constant moving back and forth between past, present and future. You cannot…
Lino Hellings –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
There are some lively places in the village where people take care. Left of the beautiful flowers you can see a row of square boxes. This is where the village…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
Life in Lagos is completely mobile. Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Specially on sundays you might see many new old people in the streets. Jogging, walking hand in hand in a lovingly way. Sao paulo is the first city I see…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
This NHL person has a heavenly smile on his face. Definitely a ‘No Hurry in Life’ man. Notice the little straw he holds in his right hand. His slogan is…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Nothing is impossible. In the positive way. Go for it. Search for the highest feasible. Education is regarded as very important. Even if you have 6 or 8 children, take…
Lino Hellings –
50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya