Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 18th of April 2024 – page 8
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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Rotterdam -
Bike placed in forbidden area creates question around who or what should occupy space in Rotterdam.
Which item has more power: the warning post or the bike?
Maureen Kamphuis, the…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Everywhere in the Rotterdam centre you will find surveillance cameras.
'Do these cameras make life more safe ?', is the question our guide Godian asks himself. ‘We see you, we…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
This is where you can deposit your chewing gum as well. On the paradise-like billboards full of promises of what the city will look like in a couple of years…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Mother and daughter sitting and eating chips. It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall:…
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Rotterdam Lab
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…
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Rotterdam Lab
Sao Paulo -
The very first thing you notice as a foreigner are the murals and other expressions in paint and/or sculpture everywhere in the city. As large scale ads are forbidden in…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Rotterdam -
These birds are very common in Dutch canals. They have the peculiar habit to build nests from everything drifting around in the water. Not only branches but food and plastics…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Melancholy around Japies Snackbar expressed in newspaper on street
Who has taken Japies place? And, does anyone care?
Maureen Kamphuis 9th of April Rotterdam…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Who is watching all these movies? Apparently the camera suggests to be 360 degrees. It is not. It is known only a percentage of the cameras work. Strange idea the…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Everywhere you look, there are bicycles embracing lanternpoles, bridges and each other.
Lino Hellings the 7th of April Rotterdam.…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Education store Crooswijk, called Twinkle in your eye. You don’t have to do parenting alone. Twinkeltje is a place where parents and educators can go with questions about the…
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Rotterdam Lab
Sao Paulo -
There is less mobile business then in Lagos Nigeria.
 Mobile business men: the key chain holder. Mobile business of a greengrocer. In the traffic jam we see entertainers:…
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Sao Paulo Lab
Rotterdam -
Great choice from fish all over the world. Some wild some cultivated.
Lino Hellings 10th of April Rotterdam…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Everywhere in Europe there are ‘car-free’ shopping streets with the same chain of shops. H and M for clothng, Footlocker for sportshoes, Dixons for your electronic gears.
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
‘Sick and tired of chewing gum in the city. Rotterdam MUST be clean, intact and safe! WHY? BECAUSE!’ says the text on the rubbish bin. The little white dots…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
It is very Dutch it is to eat chips with mayonnaise on the street. On the market square there is a stall: ‘Bram Ladage, most healthy chips of the Netherlands’…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Godian, our guide for the day, comes from Nigeria, a vast country with numerous natural resources and a population whose size, despite its poverty, makes it an interesting market…
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Rotterdam Lab
Sao Paulo -
There are great public spaces designed by architects that work really well like Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and culture building Sesci Pompei and Centre Cultural. The climate allows a…
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Sao Paulo Lab
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.  …
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
It is hard to tell in which country this picture is taken. This is the shopping street in the Old (Wild) West, where over 90 nationalities share daily life. Only…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
A way to store your bicycle in the streets. Most bicycles embrace lanternpoles and/or other bicycles in a touching and affectionate way though. ‘Fietstrommel’ sounds like candy box.
On the…
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Rotterdam Lab
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…
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Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
In the Old West of Rotterdam ninety percent of the inhabitants are originally from all different parts of the world. African ladies having great fun sitting on a low rail…
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Rotterdam 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…
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Sao Paulo Lab