“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). 

Open air study rooms.

Sao Paulo -  In the Centro Cultural there are a lot of people studying. Old and young. There is a free wireless network. You have to apply to be able to get the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Open air gym

Sao Paulo -  Open air gym organised by a world champion boxing and men from the (neighbor)hood. Directly under the traffic viaducts, it is a good initiative, although they did send some people…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

On the meaning of art.

Lagos -  The discussion on the meaning of art was full of shouting humor. Quotes: In our country so many things are not pleasantly looking. Art serves a function here/ Art is…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Nothing is impossible

Asira ash Shamaliya -  Nothing is impossible. In the positive way. Go for it. Search for the highest feasible. Education is regarded as very important. Even if you have 6 or 8 children, take…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

NHL No Hurry in Life

Lagos -  This NHL person has a heavenly smile on his face. Definitely a ‘No Hurry in Life’ man. Notice the little straw he holds in his right hand. His slogan is…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

New old people.

Sao Paulo -  Specially on sundays you might see many new old people in the streets. Jogging, walking hand in hand in a lovingly way. Sao paulo is the first city I see…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Mobile life Lagos

Lagos -  Life in Lagos is completely mobile. Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Milk and Honey

Qalandia -  There are some lively places in the village where people take care. Left of the beautiful flowers you can see a row of square boxes. This is where the village…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Old newcomers

Rotterdam -  We do have a big problem in integrating newcomers in our society. It is hopefull that people from Surinam, a former Dutch colony seem to have found their way up…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Non Stop, the users script

Asira ash Shamaliya -  ’Non Stop’ is the central notion to the Users script of Asira ash Samaliya. It is a constant moving back and forth between past, present and future. You cannot…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Newcomers Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  In my guesthouse it is all working people staying there. Like me. Mostly doctors and nurses coming from neighbouring countries like Peru, Colombia or other parts of Brazil. There is…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

New buildings

Qalandia -  The quarry for this stone is at the edge of the village. In fact you can use any mountain here as a quarry. It gives the local workers a good…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Mobile (?) shop Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  It is spring in Sao Paulo. Heavy rains and sunshine alternate. More rain and warmer then in other years make the trees blossom even more intensely. In this season the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Metro man and woman

Sao Paulo -  In corners of the station and beyond you find couples kissing passionately. It does add a swing to live. Brazilian way. Ginga-Jogo de cintura. …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Of mice and man

Asira ash Shamaliya -  It looks like a mouse has eaten its way through the wall. But it is in fact an elderly gentleman who made the tunnels with the jack hammer machine down…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

NO restaurant

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Once Stroom, a foundation that promotes art in public space organized a barbecue on this spot for a selected group of artists, architects and citydevelopers. They were send…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

New urban slaverism.

Sao Paulo -  This catadore cannot become part of the collective. He is sorting out his garbage in the street. He cannot leave his car behind afraid as he is it will be…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

National secretary office of Catadores

Sao Paulo -  Despite the informality of the job of catadores there is a support organisation that helps the collectives organise themselves. The only principle the collectives have to accept is, work as…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Mixed marriage and other complexities

Qalandia -  The laundry is out in the sun. So there are people still living in this village. In my home country the Netherlands the bureaucracy drives me crazy from time to…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia

Obesity

Sao Paulo -  A note above the blue chair says it is reserved for obese people. Try to avoid blue chairs. In the metro carriages there is a run on the brown chairs…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

No parking

Ramallah -  How to make a reservation for the parking space in front of your shop? This is one way to do that. Moreover it is a great opportunity to show your…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

New urban picturism

Sao Paulo -  A new and legão (cool, literally ‘legal’) venue for photography opened today. The first exhibition is showing the gutters of Sao Paulo. It is shot by a collective named…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Modern times

Sao Paulo -  In the concrete corridors leading to the platforms of the metro it feels like being in an artwork for me. The shape of the tubes. The modernist seats. On the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Mini Market

Qalandia -  No shops around. All we see are closed shutters. But the fresh bread on the door is a sign of life.…
Lino Hellings – 50 Villages Qalandia