Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 5th of December 2024 – page 3
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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Bishkek -
In the side streets of Mira Prospect, the big road the taxi drivers gather and wait for clients to come. Meanwhile they play games in improvised sitting rooms.…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
Rotterdam -
A lot of effort has been made to improve the neighbourhood. Especially drugs abuse and criminality connected to that gave the Tarwewijk a very bad reputation. Streets with rows of…
Lino Hellings –
Migrationpapa
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
Sao Paulo -
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
Bishkek -
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 -
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
Ramallah -
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
Rotterdam -
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…
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Rotterdam Lab
Sao Paulo -
A man runs from car to car and hangs a few sweets in a special plastic cover on the car mirrors. Who started this way of offering sweets?…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
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…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
The Hague -
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
Bishkek -
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
Rotterdam -
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
Bishkek -
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
Sao Paulo -
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
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
Sao Paulo -
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
Bishkek -
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
Rotterdam -
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
Sao Paulo -
The sweets are manually packed. Not many people do buy the package.…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Ramallah -
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
Sao Paulo -
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
Rotterdam -
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
The Hague -
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