Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 28th of March 2024 – page 2
From day one, the correspondents in Labs and Projects post images on the PAPAwebsite. After one week we recognize patterns in the total amount of photographs the group of photographers have uploaded. In every lab we drew four mindmaps of the patterns we found. Look at the mind map as you would look at a photo. Allow your eye to wander from text balloon to text balloon. Then read the accompanying text. See it as collective knowledge, gathered by a group of photographers. Knowledge that you can apply in an intuitive manner, which shows the similarities and differences. The mind maps are time images as well. If you repeat the procedure after a few years you can find the patterns have changed.
Explore the mind maps of Lagos, the unplanned city, São Paulo, the informal city, Rotterdam, the regulated city, Bishkek, the patchwork city.
Dhaka -
To set up your shoe repair shop on less than a square meter in the middle of the sidewalk while pedestrians squeeze themselves past you, requires a high degree…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Sao Paulo -
São Paulo is one of the fastest growing cities of the world. It is doing very well economically. Every block of four one- or two-storey houses that falls into…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Dhaka -
It’s amazing how resilient the people are that you meet on the street here in Bangladesh. They are living under conditions that many of us would not endure for…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Lagos -
The Nigerians have a lovely way to deal with all the institutions that deliver badly. They change the letters in the acronyms into new sayings. In this way they made…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Qalandia -
All spaces are very marginal What we mean, it is all is just a little bit used. A little bit of business, a little bit of industry, almost no children…
Lino Hellings –
50 Villages Qalandia
Dhaka -
There is no denying: big forces are at work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nature - the climate which causes the flooding of the land. The enormous pollution of the factories…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab