“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). 

City De-velopment/De-molition

Rotterdam -  The yellow temporary sign indicates the street on the right has become a dead-end street. Because of building activities. The little poster says: Hurray! Social destruction! It is a pun…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

City as Canvas Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  The very first thing you notice as a foreigner are the murals and other expressions in paint and/or sculpture everywhere in the city. As large scale ads are forbidden in…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Christmas Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  It must do something to your frame of mind to celebrate christmas with these winterlike accessories in this hot wheater. Maybe this is the fundament for the Brazilian frame of…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Chewing gum

Rotterdam -  ‘Sick and tired of chewing gum in the city. Rotterdam MUST be clean, intact and safe! WHY? BECAUSE!’ says the text on the rubbish bin. The little white dots…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Car free shopping

Rotterdam -  Everywhere in Europe there are ‘car-free’ shopping streets with the same chain of shops. H and M for clothng, Footlocker for sportshoes, Dixons for your electronic gears. Lino Hellings 9…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Brazilian way Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  São Paulo is one of the fastest growing cities of the world. It is doing very well economically. Every block of four one- or two-storey houses that falls into…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Bicycles in Love

Rotterdam -  Everywhere you look, there are bicycles embracing lanternpoles, bridges and each other. Lino Hellings the 7th of April Rotterdam.…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Benetton people

Sao Paulo -  Knowing Sao Paulo forbid all advertisement in public space you would expect an ‘empty city’. On the contrary not one piece of wall unpainted. Murals all over. The people do…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Christmas in April

Bishkek -  Right at the start of our first wild walk we find this group of men in this little house. Apparently it is a stage as well. Several rows of benches…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Cheap houses

Rotterdam -  For what reasons do people leave the house/the city/the country they live in? And why do they choose The Tarwewijk as a quarter to live in? One of the explanations…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Camila, Pati, Jessica

Sao Paulo -  You find these stickers in virtually every phone booth in São Paulo: a telephone book for contacting ladies, some of whom might be transvestites. …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Boys toys

Bishkek -  His friends admire the plastic pistol the little boy has. His future job is clear. In the quarter where I live and work there are small houses where people live…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Bicycle flyover

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. In the past years the citycouncil has made some great adjustements to make the area more accessible to cyclists and walkers. This bicycle flyover ( or overpass as…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Beamed exhibition

Rotterdam -  Our work was shown on location for six weeks from the end of November 2010 till half January 2011. Sandra Smets, art critic in NRC newspaper Cultural Supplement…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Chips with mayonnaise.

Rotterdam -  It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall: ‘Bram Ladage, most healthy chips of the Netherlands’…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Carpet day

Bishkek -  Carpets, bedding and laundry covering all kind of objects in open air. All windows are open.  In my guesthouse I meet an ex militairy man from Oekraine…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

call the welder

Lagos -  Call the welder, call the plumber, call the carpenter, call the electrician etc. Other craftsmen advertise in the same way. Sometimes they make a small installation to show off their…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Bottom up

Sao Paulo -  When I ask myself why there are so many skinny flatbuildings in Sao Paulo, this picture gives the answer. Everytime a couple of small one or two story high houses…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Bicycle box(fietstrommel)

Rotterdam -  A way to store your bicycle in the streets. Most bicycles embrace lanternpoles and/or other bicycles in a touching and affectionate way though. ‘Fietstrommel’ sounds like candy box. On the…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Chewing gum free style

Rotterdam -  This is where you can deposit your chewing gum as well. On the paradise-like billboards full of promises of what the city will look like in a couple of years…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Carpet country

Bishkek -  The carpets are beautiful. Made of natural materials and in bright colours. Like the people in Kyrgyzstan, who seem to be so soft and welcoming. But then again, it can…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Bridalshop

Rotterdam -  This shop sells outfits for Hindu weddings. The bride, groom and guests can buy their dresses, jewellery, shoes and handbags in this colourful shop. There is a wide variety of…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Black day

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…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Beye, beye Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  About to leave for the airport. Beye beye! We keep the website open for the PAPA correspondents here for one more week. Then PAPA will move to another continent again…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab