“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 -  Snackbar Hillevliet is closed today (monday). But open the other days. Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-22:00 hours. Sunday 14:00- 22:00. But where is the snackbar? No 113A is a normal house?! Home Work…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Rotterdam -  Leeuwarden is three hours drive from Rotterdam. Rotterdam at work is what we are looking for this week. Well we see a lot of busses from companies working on the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Chaos and order. There are a lot of rules, regulations, advices, guidelines given in the Rotterdam Public space. Will they work or will they encourage the opposite? Are these ways…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Prins Clausplein. The map shows the highway leads to distant places on the globe but not to the direct spaces around it. The little roads and pathes in the landscape…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Mother and daughter sitting and eating chips. It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall:…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Sleeping in the middle of a busy shopping street is safer than sleeping in a hidden corner, and  the small ants in the parks are very aggressive. There are…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Another cliche image for a person who only knows Ramallah from TV is the image of buildings shot into pieces.  However these heaps of  rubble are put here…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

The sweets are manually packed. Not many people do buy the package.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

This pensioner is trying to earn some extra money. The main street is packed with beauty salons. There must be some women who want to know how much they weigh…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

In the back you see Arthur the paperman. Here the builders gather. When there are around ten the minibus leaves. What is the job you are going to do I…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

In the university area there are all kind of small kiosks like this bakery. As everywhere in the world, the young girls wear skinny jeans. …
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

From street to street you enter new music clouds. Together with the Styrofoam boxes on wheels these are the mobile shops of São Paulo.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

It is 10:20 when we leave the  DRIK offices for our first Photo Walk.The guard is keeping an eye on the Drik property while having his lunch. Many…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

There is less mobile business then in Lagos Nigeria.
 Mobile business men: the key chain holder. Mobile business of a greengrocer. In the traffic jam we see entertainers:…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Up to the day of today signs and signals of the Soviet times can be read everywhere in public space. On a flatbuilding it shows in big iron letters ‘Do…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

As Erwin and his family prepare a remigration to Surinam they have started to pack stuff in boxes to send of to Surinam through one of the businesses in shipping…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Winter has just disappeared and the grass has started to grow. On his way to the supermarket (to buy booze?) this man takes a nap on the side of…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Prins Clausplein. This small house is situated at the back of an allotment garden, which people who live in nearby flats can rent for a reasonable price to grow their…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Not many people like to live in a village so close to the Wall. Walls is better said. The Walls serpentine through the landscape. In Qalandia they are circling around…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

An elderly couple transport their shopping on electric scootmobiles. These machines are dangerous in traffic but did enlarge the range of the elderly enormously. Lino Hellings the 12th of April…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

When I think of Ramallah as I know it from Dutch TV, I see closed shutters. Because of the tense situation shopkeepers had to close down their shops, was the…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

The catadores are organised in a coöperative with equal rights. The young women are sorting out bottles of oil. It is an informal but highly specialized profession.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Just to have another view on the city I stroll around the centre of the city on my own. This is near the White House where one year ago the…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Sao Paulo forbade advertisements in public space so I have heard. I expected empty walls. On the contrary there are murals everywhere. Art, advertisement? I do not know. It does…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab