“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). 

Taxi drivers backgammon.

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

Taking a break

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

Sweet Money

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

Street advertisement?

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

Spring in Bishkek

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

sorting oil

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

Shutters

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

Scootmobiles

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…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Streeteconomist in rain

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

Storage is cheap

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

Soweto?

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

Snowdrop

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

Shipping and saving money

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

Sch(ism) Bishkek

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

Street-economy Sao Paulo

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

Start Photowalk

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

Sound installation CD vendor

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

Skinny jeans

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

Separatism

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

Street economics

Sao Paulo -  The sweets are manually packed. Not many people do buy the package.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

square meter price

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

Sound asleep

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

Sitting room

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

Scrap pieces of land

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