Participating Artists Press Agency
“Migrationpapa”
Wednesday 16th of October 2024 – page 3
On a Monday morning in November 2010, six photographers in five cities around the world take their cameras to urban neighbourhoods where newcomers arrive. The photos flow into the PAPA website like a wave moving around the world. First from Bangladesh, five hours later from Rotterdam and Lagos – cities in the same time zone. Detroit and São Paulo complete the group another seven hours later. From the first week the photos and captions were projected on the windows of the cultural centre at the entrance to the neighbourhood in Rotterdam. The same will happen in other cities. In this way the inhabitants of the various newcomers neighbourhoods not only get a fresh perspective on their own lives but they also get to see how newcomers in other cities live. Migrationpapa is a PAPA project for Kosmopolis Rotterdam with the generous support of Hivos
Saturday 6th of November 2010
Sao Paulo -
I first took the picture. Then I tried to talk with them. Once more, they didn’t want to talk. When they saw me with the camera they quicly went inside…
Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Iduma Chibueze, a wrist watch seller at the Sabo arrived Lagos in January, 2010 with savings made from Ebonyi eastern Nigeria to start his business. He came with the aspiration…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Dhaka -
The concept of privacy is very different in a home where the whole family lives in one room.…
Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Young boys sitting on of the many commercial motor bikes also known as Okada became visible on the road in Lagos as community transportation has now come to be one…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A man moving bag of rice as kegs of palm oil waits buyers across the country and beyond at at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Dhaka -
A narrow wooden stairway takes people to the upper floor of the two storied accommodation in Sadek City Model Town. The rooms do not have windows so the upper rooms…
Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
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
Lagos -
A mobile medicine stand from eastern Nigeria at Onikan area of Lagos. Walking along this path with my tooth ache , he invited me to take alot at his stuff with…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
The barber uses two small generators to ensure his business goes uninterrupted by power failures. Generators are one of Nigeria’s main exports. Despite the government’s failure to assure electricity, users…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
To my surprise, the Chinese poet Bei Dao (now living in Danmark, is quoted on a garbage truck. It says: ‘ The source dries out, the fire rages, the road…
Nies Medema –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
The Polish supermarket is a huge success. The Yugoslavian Zeko moved to Rotterdam nineteen years ago . Since four years he lives in the Tarwewijk. He started of as a greengrocer…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Two towers on a 200 square meter play ground. It’s 4 pm, there is not one child playing. In Dutch cities, there are many of these so called Playground Associations…
Nies Medema –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A board with winning numbers for daily lotteries, known as Baba Ijebu, at Obalende. Although there are rarely many winners, this form of gambling is rampant in Obalende, especially among…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A young migrant from northern Nigeria hanging around in heavy traffic in Lagos to clean dirty windows for cash. In less than one hour he earns as much a 50…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A young migrant from Kano, nothern Nigeria relaxing at Obalende after a long and hard day pushing people goods with wheel barrow for money. Barely able to speak the Nigeria…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Woman from eastern in front of her store where she sells stockfish a.k.aOporoko at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Two balconies in pensioners home ‘ Harmonie’ (Harmony). One with a Dutch flag, the other with a satellite dish, allowing her to watch TV shows from all over the world…
Nies Medema –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
With a big umbrella, the cheapest phone of less than 10 dollars many new comers make their daily living through the Mobile Telephone booth popularly known as Payphone that dots…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Rotterdam -
Young Mr. Bhoendie has been working here for eleven years now. His father and mother bought this little restaurant fifteen years ago. His mother cooks Surinamese, Hindu, Chinese, Carribean and…
Nies Medema –
Migrationpapa
Detroit -
A dead tree is covered with teddy bears and topped with shopping carts (used by the homeless in the city). The Heidelberg Project was created in 1986 by artist Tyree…
Marcin Szczepanski –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Men from western Nigeria reading newpapers at one of the rice stores at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it a hub…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A lady taking care of her bowl of local liqour a.k.a Ogogoro at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. The bowl are words…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Mr Lawal from Katsina on his commercial motor bikes also known as Okada awaiting passenger in Onike, another migrant community in Lagos. He left his family after hearing many stories…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
A pendant of one of the gamblers who told to me that daily betting has brought some improvement to his financial situation. He even boasted he bought his pendant from…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa