“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). 

Power building

Rotterdam -  Right next to the mess of the railway station building site, the first brand-new skyscrapers welcome you to the city. Offices for insurance companies, banks and a hotel is what…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Polski Sklep2

Rotterdam -  Every few other days the shopowner drives 850 from Rotterdam to Poland to buy the meat, vegetables and other Polish groceries. The shop closes at ten in the evening. When…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Polski Sklep

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

Pigeon pride

Bishkek -  Although the men did not want to be pictured they did want to show us their pigeons. I wonder how these people survive the severe winters and the hot summers…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Patterns 1 Tarwewijk

Rotterdam -  The neighbourhood has a bad name despite the enormous efforts done by the city council to renovate the area. Because of the bad name the houses do not sell and…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Pattern 2: Creating empty spaces to be filled

Qalandia -  The only state that is considered real is real estate is a slogan here in Palestine. Perseverance is the next key. You create space for the future whether it is…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Palestine architects

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

Ordinary life as an act of rebellion

Ramallah -  We drew 4 patterns after the first week of posting photo’s (80) as a result from the shared photo walk.Walking in the streets of Ramallah you are made…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

pleasure tape

Rotterdam -  Non-sticky bondage tape. Only sticks to itself. And lovers’ fantasy kit. In the window’s reflection we see an elderly man with a rollator, and the metro.…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

PCC street

Sao Paulo -  Do not take pictures here, Sergio the Catadore warned me. The PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) began as a prisoners union to defend inmate rights. But now it is a…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Pattern 4 Tarwewijk

Rotterdam -  An attempt to get it all into one picture, the tensions between the state and the civilian and between the individual and the collective/community.…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Patchwork Bishkek

Bishkek -  People, fences, houses, roads are made up of a patchwork. We recognise the traditional patchwork style in the quilts that are aired on early spring days. We see the…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

P.A.P.A. Nigeria ready to be founded

Lagos -  Over hundred people came to the opening. Lady in the middle is Folake Ojerkere, the director of Pictureworks extra. With the Netherlands Embassy, she is the sponsor of this exhibition…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Open and close

Asira ash Shamaliya -  In the old village there are quite some empty houses. People migrate abroad or move to the city. The houses may lack modern comfort. If the house is not occupied…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Pixas

Sao Paulo -  There are a lot of different styles of murals, grafitti and here pixas. The pixadores use a unique style of lettering. Their messages have political connotations. Not for me to…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Patterns 3 Tarwewijk

Rotterdam -  The state and the civilian both do put great effort in exploring ways to improve the conditions for living. Sometimes succesfull, many times not so much. To many rules and…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Pattern 4 Big Forces to be seen in Qalandia

Qalandia -  Evident is that the big force is here Occupation of the Palestinian land. OK some things like where to build a house needs to be regulated. But then your own…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Parts for airplanes

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Scattered around the area there are several small industrial areas. They house up to thirty businesses among them depots for city furniture and soil. This is a business…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Our local guide

Qalandia -  The first to sign up as our guide, is the mayor. This elderly gentleman here is our second guide. He gives us valuable information on recent developments. He shows us…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Pipeline art

Bishkek -  Wherever you look there are pipelines in Bishkek. The gas pipes are all above the ground and form arches where ever you enter the innercourt of housing blocks. This here…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Patterns 2 Tarwewijk

Rotterdam -  Tensions are not necessarily bad. In fact they are good not bad I think. How to balance between the positive and the negative apsects of the rapid change in amounts…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Pattern 3 Qalandia as a Palestinian reality check

Qalandia -  As well as for the people from Ramallah as for all Palestinians as for all world citizens Qalandia is the place where you can see the Palestinian reality in its…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Papers please

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

Our first attempts

Ramallah -  To give a glimpse on the Tactics of Life we have encountered so far, it is good to know people attach great importance to the feeling that LIFE is NORMAL…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab