Participating Artists Press Agency
Saturday 20th of April 2024 – page 11
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).
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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…
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Sao Paulo 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
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…
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Lagos Lab
Lagos -
In every tourist guide about Lagos you read about the Area boys. Gang of men and boys who ‘own’ the place (unofficially). They supply services you have not asked for…
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Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Some plants and a notice on a piece of plywood. This way you can open up several shops and businesses at the same time. …
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Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The photographer is Tuoyo, picturing a mobile businessman. The business man on the left is Toye Gbade. Tuoyo works as a free lance photojournalist. Toye works in a publishing company…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Sao Paulo -
Most people cook on bottled gas. Specially made carts and bicycles transport the gas to your doorstep. Mobile energy.
Sao Paulo, the 9th of November 2009…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Lagos -
A lot of the life in Lagos is performed in the streets. In the West it is considered inappropriate and it is even forbidden. Here there is a wide variety…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
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
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
Lagos -
The five of us where just about leaving for Lagos Mainland when a group of artists/painters of trucks and busses arrived. AAF is running a project with these ‘grass roots’…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Sao Paulo -
Just saw a lady carefully spreading the crusts of bread after she dropped her waste in the basket. All along the streets you find these baskets. Sometimes the size of…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Knowing Sao Paulo forbid all advertisement in public space you would expect an ‘empty city’. On the contrary not one piece of wall unpainted. Murals all over. The people do…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Lagos -
Call the welder, call the plumber, call the carpenter, call the electrician etc. Other craftsmen advertise in the same way. Sometimes they make a small installation to show off their…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
With a handfull of cables and a lot of skills Toye made it work on the slow and unreliable internet connection we have here. Apart from being a good observer…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You can read this on several houses in our street. It tells the story of a deceased person with many children who cannot agree on the legacy. To prefend one…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
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
Lagos -
To finalize our research we made news about the forces in Public Space which pop up when you go slightly out of the script. In a positive and a negative…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Ten big prints on bamboo structures. About hundred pictures put together as a collage illustrating the patterns in the news we have found and two posters with drawn mindmaps made…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Two new photographers joined us today. Andrew and Adolphus. We went out with the seven of us to the Bus station. The place where the area boys, the unofficial owners…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
This photo was erased but brought back into the world by the genius Tuoyo. We took a walk over the bridge today and met a lot of hidden forces in…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You cannot see it so much but this building is an artpiece in itself. The tables, chairs, the bathroom floor; all the doors are genuine artworks.
It is a pleasure…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab