Participating Artists Press Agency
Friday 29th of March 2024 – page 9
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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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…
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Do not take pictures here, Sergio the Catadore warned me. The PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) began as a prisoners union to defend inmate rights. But now it is a…
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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…
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Rua Barão de Itapetininga Sao Paulo …
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To prepare for the party whether it is Christmas or an anniversary you go to Rua 25 de Março. Here you find everything and much more. The Brazilian way of…
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Sleeping in the middle of a busy shopping street is safer than sleeping in a hidden corner, and the small ants in the parks are very aggressive. There are…
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A man runs from car to car and hangs a few sweets in a special plastic cover on the car mirrors. Who started this way of offering sweets?…
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The Brazilian way of showing pleasure is called alegria. You encounter a lot of vivid talking and laughter here in São Paulo. Here it is the pleasure after a winning…
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Next to the Catadores (the informal rubbish collectors’ coop) men from the (neighbor) hood have created their own open-air gym. Directly under the traffic viaducts, it is a good initiative…
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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…
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Follow arrow to park your car in a covered space. Entering what once was the richest part in town, you find a lot of breathing adds. The beautifull apartment…
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It must do something to your frame of mind to celebrate christmas with these winterlike accessories in this hot wheater. Maybe this is the fundament for the Brazilian frame of…
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The sweets are manually packed. Not many people do buy the package.…
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About to leave for the airport. Beye beye!
We keep the website open for the PAPA correspondents here for one more week. Then PAPA will move to another continent again…
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Every friday morning the men and women of the collective clean out the place.After a week of sorting the non-recyclable materials are gathered and removed from the plot.…
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From these little shelter you can protect middle class houses. A water container to wash yourself outside and a brown container with drinking water inside. TV with a satellite receiver…
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Metro green line. Sao Paulo 30th of November 2009. Lino Hellings…
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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…
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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…
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Sergio, or the bishop as his friends call him, educates himself reading the magazines he finds in people’s rubbish while sorting the recyclable waste. Sergio is happy here with…
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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…
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There is a run on the brown chairs as you have to stand up for the old (from 60), pregnant, cripple or parents with a small child if you sit…
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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. …
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As the standard Orelhão (big ear) was occupied at that moment, the girl decided to use the phone booth meant for wheelchair users. This public facility is very sophisticated. Take…
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