“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). 

Free books at metro station.

Sao Paulo -  In the metrostation there are several official facilities. There is a drugstore where you can get cheap medicines. Here we find a library. Where you can borrow books for free…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Forbidden to horn

Dhaka -  At this small office along the road with the never ending traffic jam you can register for driving lessons. You need to have nerves of steel, no scruples to push…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

Food for the soul

Asira ash Shamaliya -  In the streets of the village we meet mostly elderly. Some are retired, others still at work. This man answers our questions kindly while his hands remain engaged in the…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Finish Photo Walk

Dhaka -  It is 13:20 when we return. The guard is still there. He keeps record of who is entering and who is leaving the building. We had a exciting walk. We…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

Educating people

Sao Paulo -  In the entrance of the private university where the Human Rights Colloquiem is held you can deposit your waste in five different categories: Paper, plastic, glass, metal and non recycable…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Drugstore umpire.

Sao Paulo -  Everybody in the shop sees he/she is looked at. A live surveillance camera and probably more effective. Rua Barão de Itapetininga Sao Paulo 30th of November 2009 Lino Hellings…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Decorated trees.

Sao Paulo -  Coloured rosettes on trees under the crossover in the centre median strip between the two traffic lanes. These are rosettes you see on presents at anniversaries. Seen at several places…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Cleaning line

Sao Paulo -  Car wash places are semi public. Four or five man cleaning one car at rapid speed. Getting the pieces of cloth of the line wipe the car a few times…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Food for the body

Asira ash Shamaliya -  This elderly man drives around with a water tank behind a tractor. The water from Palestine is pumped by the Israeli and transported to Israel only to be redistributed back…
Lino Hellings – 50 villages Asira ash Shamaliya

Feijenoord

Rotterdam -  In the distance we see the Football stadion of Feijenoord on a sunday evening(afternoon). In the front we see the Tarwewijk’s main traffic vein: de Dordtse laan. You cannot imagine…
Lino Hellings – Migrationpapa

Educating people

Sao Paulo -  In Lina Bo Bardi’s Sesc sports and cultural centre you can eat good food that is paid by weight. In the building opposite the dinner hall you can read, play…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Dream and hope

Bishkek -  In between the flatbuildings there are a lot of playgrounds. All iron equipments bit rusty but painted in all the colours of the rainbow as well. It reminds of the…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Currant buns in a plastic bag.

Rotterdam -  Even more Dutch it is to bring your own lunch in a plastic bag. Probably current buns. Eat it in the street while resting on your ‘rollater’ a four wheel…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Clans Bishkek

Bishkek -  How could such peaceful, contemplative people get involved in two recent revolutions (2005 and 2010) and ethnic riots (2010)? I began to understand the mechanism a little after I…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Food color

Dhaka -  The many stalls with fresh fruits and vegetables add color to the street of Dhaka. And the taste is so much better then what I am used to eat at…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

Errorist lecture for Human Right Activists.

Sao Paulo -  …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Easter Best

Ramallah -  We tend to think, or more specifically I presumed all Palestine people were Islamic. That is not the case at all. Here in Ramallah there are ten or more Christian…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Domain of the fox

The Hague -  Prinsclaus Flyover where the bicyclepath, the waterway and the railtrack meet. The area under the flyover is the domain of a single fox, crows who have their nests in the…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Cricket supporters

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The area hosts numerous sportsfacilities like a cricketclub. One of the few in the Netherlands. There are football-, korfball-, tennisclubs-, indoorski facilities, horseback ridingschools and a golfcourse. There…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Fish from all over the world

Rotterdam -  Great choice from fish all over the world. Some wild some cultivated. Lino Hellings 10th of April Rotterdam…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Entering the financial district

Ramallah -  We are entering the financial district (in development). There are little houses with armed Palestinian guards around. I saw different sorts of armed forces. The police, the army but also…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Dutch New

Rotterdam -  Herring we eat raw here in the Netherlands.In the back you see an image of the church tower, covering up for the real church tower to be renovated.  …
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

DIY Houses

Ramallah -  the houses in the refuge camp are not designed by an architect. People build whatever they need. Sometimes decorate it sometimes leave it open.…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Colonialism as circular movement

Ramallah -  Everything is political here. If you call it Occupation it is a conflict between Palestine and Israel. If you see it as Colonialism there is more hope. Israel is coloniali…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab