“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 -  We do have a big problem in integrating newcomers in our society. It is hopefull that people from Surinam, a former Dutch colony seem to have found their way up…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Lagos -  The discussion on the meaning of art was full of shouting humor. Quotes: In our country so many things are not pleasantly looking. Art serves a function here/ Art is…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Open air gym organised by a world champion boxing and men from the (neighbor)hood. Directly under the traffic viaducts, it is a good initiative, although they did send some people…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

To give a glimpse on the Tactics of Life we have encountered so far, it is good to know people attach great importance to the feeling that LIFE is NORMAL…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

After having watched the (probably) illegal workers going off in the dark and after having said goodbeye to Arthur, I start to explore the quarter by car. Within short a…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

As well as for the people from Ramallah as for all Palestinians as for all world citizens Qalandia is the place where you can see the Palestinian reality in its…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Tensions are not necessarily bad. In fact they are good not bad I think. How to balance between the positive and the negative apsects of the rapid change in amounts…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Wherever you look there are pipelines in Bishkek. The gas pipes are all above the ground and form arches where ever you enter the innercourt of housing blocks. This here…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

In the Centro Cultural there are a lot of people studying. Old and young. There is a free wireless network. You have to apply to be able to get the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

The first to sign up as our guide, is the mayor. This elderly gentleman here is our second guide. He gives us valuable information on recent developments. He shows us…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Prins Clausplein. Scattered around the area there are several small industrial areas. They house up to thirty businesses among them depots for city furniture and soil. This is a business…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Evident is that the big force is here Occupation of the Palestinian land. OK some things like where to build a house needs to be regulated. But then your own…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

The state and the civilian both do put great effort in exploring ways to improve the conditions for living. Sometimes succesfull, many times not so much. To many rules and…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

There are a lot of different styles of murals, grafitti and here pixas. The pixadores use a unique style of lettering. Their messages have political connotations. Not for me to…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

In the old village there are quite some empty houses. People migrate abroad or move to the city. The houses may lack modern comfort. If the house is not occupied…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Over hundred people came to the opening. Lady in the middle is Folake Ojerkere, the director of Pictureworks extra. With the Netherlands Embassy, she is the sponsor of this exhibition…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

People, fences, houses, roads are made up of a patchwork. We recognise the traditional patchwork style in the quilts that are aired on early spring days. We see the…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

An attempt to get it all into one picture, the tensions between the state and the civilian and between the individual and the collective/community.…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Do not take pictures here, Sergio the Catadore warned me. The PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) began as a prisoners union to defend inmate rights. But now it is a…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

We drew 4 patterns after the first week of posting photo’s (80) as a result from the shared photo walk.Walking in the streets of Ramallah you are made…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Here is part of the RIWAQ team that participated in PAPA Lab Ramallah the past two weeks. We share an interest in how people live their lives in the public…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

The only state that is considered real is real estate is a slogan here in Palestine. Perseverance is the next key. You create space for the future whether it is…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

The neighbourhood has a bad name despite the enormous efforts done by the city council to renovate the area. Because of the bad name the houses do not sell and…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Although the men did not want to be pictured they did want to show us their pigeons. I wonder how these people survive the severe winters and the hot summers…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab