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In the cold of night a statue of a black swimmer stands silent A real black girl walks by, wearing a warm coat The red neon light gives an illusion of warmth But the winter streets in Geneva are empty and cold Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery Hits: 7
So the robot came out of the blue box As Holly takes her breakfast looking at Tiffany’s window The relationship of women with diamonds is part of the American Dream Success stories where the end justifies the means In a material world where there is no happy end without money Christmas is the symbol of […]
Blunt portrait shots in the crowd is like some close-combat fight Assuming they are transparent, passerbys constantly interfere with your subject You have to swim against the human tide to take a few quick shots But your eyes will never meet as the crowd grips you to drag you away Like a drunken sailor fallen […]
Young black beauties in skimpy outfits take a pause They light a legit looking cigarette and puff away the smoke Sweet young dragons playing with fire seeping the poisons of life We probably all play the fatal hide and seek with death sometime in our life The slow Russian roulette with a self-loading gun it […]
It is twerk and shout, shake it up baby, like an old twist song of the sixties Hands on her hips and bumper to bumper, the mix is shaping the street Every little step in the direction of acceptance of the difference is a victory We are immensely grateful to Claudia Cumberbatch Jones for her […]
The girl with kaleidoscopic eyes has a ticket to ride The red double decker the old souvenirs of the quartet Who sang ‘she’s got a ticket to ride’, I was then in my early teens The first parties under the vigilance of an army of mommies Sporting crazy ‘permed’ hairdos that looked like crash helmets […]
The sharp edge of the new moon tore at the night sky And through the rant in the deep blue bedsheet, the stars spilled in the street They fell to the earth in a fiery Perseid storm, an alien invasion after the long drought So we will slake our thirst at the brim of their […]
From the top of the well you get a glimpse of infinity The vast nothingness of the desert that moves and breathes It is the “thing” that kills or let you live it is both cruel and gracious Like a “femme fatale” it will play with you in the manner of a cat To suddenly […]
Beauty strikes again along bohemian Chepstow Road She looks like a mysterious Princess from faraway lands Or rather some warrior queen heroine from Enki Bilal’s strips Flaunting long copper-colored braids to mesmerize the wanderers In the way candles attract moths in their fatal circle of light Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery […]
Two elegant ladies stroll along the streets of the old Jamestown district A derelict place where the memory of the Gold Coast still thrives The colonial name of Ghana, the vestiges of plunder and pillage The ruins of sorrowful times once built over the ruins of a glorious African Empire The departure gates for the […]