Participating Artists Press Agency
Tuesday 23rd of April 2024 – page 2
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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Dhaka -
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
Dhaka -
At this small office along the road with the never ending traffic jam you can register for driving lessons. You need to have nerves of steel, no scruples to push…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
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
Ramallah -
The financial district is in development as you can see. There are building that are half way like this one, buildings that only have a billboard showing a bright future…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Ramallah -
This man in al Am’ari sits next to a huge heap of pure rubbish. Office chairs sofas , a satellite dish and bicycle parts is what I see…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Ramallah -
To live under circumstances like this, were you are locked up in little pieces of land, the quality of public space is of vital importance. Is it well maintained at…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Dhaka -
To set up your shoe repair shop on less than a square meter in the middle of the sidewalk while pedestrians squeeze themselves past you, requires a high degree…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
You do not see many scooters in the streets of Dhaka. Not a bad item to start importing here to beat the traffic jam. It also disguises you from the…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
Every morning around 7 the traffic jam starts. Or rather the traffic stops. It is hard to move forward here in Dhaka. In more then one sense. It is quite…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
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
Ramallah -
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
Ramallah -
In the refugee camp al Am’ari the bicycle shop has hundreds of used, mainly children’s bicycles. This is a way to display some of the frames on the wall opposite…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Dhaka -
It’s amazing how resilient the people are that you meet on the street here in Bangladesh. They are living under conditions that many of us would not endure for…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
Nice apartments building arose across the street from the slums. Is it land grabbing? Just heard today 24 schools are under threat of land grabbing and two schools lost their…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
At twelve o’clock school finishes. Last night I had a long talk with an Italian business man in my guesthouse. He is working for a firm that develops chemicals…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Ramallah -
This money machine looks so sweet. The little waste paper basket in matching colors with the flowers and the cash machine it self. Like it is made for Barbie and…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Ramallah -
Every barber in Ramallah uses this kind of drying rack to hang the towels in the sun. Also a good way to reserve a parking place and indicate where the…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Ramallah -
It has been mentioned in other posts as well but THE KEY in omnipresent. It symbolizes the ownership of houses in Israeli territory where people from the Palestine territory have…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab
Dhaka -
Life in public space in Dhaka Bangladesh is incredibly vibrant. The traffic is insane. From 6 in the morning till 1 in the night all roads are blocked with a…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
A person has managed to build a brick house. A huge step forward compared to the houses on poles on the back made of bamboo and thatched panels. The poorest…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Dhaka -
A few things I feel changed since I visited Dhaka in 2008. One of them is the amount of women covering their faces has increased. Here you see the three…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Ramallah -
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
Ramallah -
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
Ramallah -
Every foreigner walking freely in the streets of Ramallah is a potential ambassador of Palestine. So you are welcomed to the country many times a day. That is not out…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab