Participating Artists Press Agency
Tuesday 19th of March 2024 – page 1
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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Asira ash Shamaliya -
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…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
The dawn of freedom is coming’ you can read under drawing of the peace dove. The building behind the wall is a elementary school. Education is highly regarded. Youngsters go…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
All spaces are very marginal What we mean, it is all is just a little bit used. A little bit of business, a little bit of industry, almost no children…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Asira ash Shamaliya -
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…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
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…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
This elderly man drives around with a water tank behind a tractor. The water from Palestine is pumped by the Israeli and transported to Israel only to be redistributed back…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Qalandia -
Not every progress is an improvement. This old fashioned house is decorated with lots of love. Much better then some of the new ghost villa's in the village where concrete…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
No shops around. All we see are closed shutters. But the fresh bread on the door is a sign of life.…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Asira ash Shamaliya -
’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…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
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…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
In the streets of the village we meet mostly elderly. Some are retired, others still at work. This man answers our questions kindly while his hands remain engaged in the…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Asira ash Shamaliya -
While photographing we walk through the neighborhood. A group of 10 people with cameras (plus a filmmaker) it falls on. From different windows we are addressed by friendly ladies. This…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Asira ash Shamaliya -
In the middle of all kind of things to be recycled one day, I see this baby carriage from Holland. Bugaboo is the business of the brother of my best…
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50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
In the old centre of the Village Qalandia there are these ancient buildings. Some parts are centuries old. Here 4 of the 5 architects that joined in the 'teach the…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Qalandia -
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…
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50 Villages Qalandia
Dhaka -
There is no denying: big forces are at work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nature - the climate which causes the flooding of the land. The enormous pollution of the factories…
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Dhaka Lab