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The summer day comes to an end The kindergarten toys are stowed away Little soldiers’ dream of a children’s PLA Space cadets and majorettes dance away in your head Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
What makes the Notting Hill Carnival so exceptional is the mood It is a free event, participants have been waiting a year for this moment Dramas, drunkenness , heartbreaks and loves at first sight happen here Princesses and bohemians, hignesses and lownesses gather together All the stages of life and emotions are unfolding in this […]
A railroad and an umbrella, the initiation voyage Two rails that will meet in the infinity according to geometrical theories Reality is a place between the emptiness of beginning and of that the end Life follows its track under its own umbrella under sun or storm… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
At varying degrees of exposure, The odalisques strut their strut Uninhibited and unfazed conquerors Chepstow is ours, so their bodies claim Who would put up a fight with the amazons? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Two Diosas from both ends of the visible spectre Spare a precious moment of their overbooked agendas To pose for the camera and a chance for instant celebrity Carnival is this place in time where dreams and reality meet They dance behind their masks, but their hands never touch Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Strangers in a stranger paradise As the rubberized descend on Regent Street Taking the Sphinx’s riddle on a stride A four-legged future for something lost and found Wonder what will the ferryman’s fare be … Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The Chepstow show is like a galaxy from Hill to Gate With innumerable planets suns, stars and satellites Performers and participants wear their dreams like a mask Lighting their fires they become more real than their everyday self Like shooting stars they leave a bright ephemeral signature on the sky Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
It was raining sun like a storm of fire A girl huddling and hurrying under an umbrella Skirts the billboards of the premises of promised lands Great flaming tomorrows under the yoke of a sun-baked army Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
In a world of military men, bombs and missiles matter Size, numbers and body counts matter in their dreams of mass destruction Meanwhile on Chepstow, the ladies tote their most lethal weapons The fatal attraction that has ruled so many a man’s world for aeons Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
In African culture holding hands is the expression of friendship It has a very different meaning than what ‘Westerners’ would infer Friendship is a strong asexual bondage, almost unbreakable Two girls holding hands, one with feathers and the other not Showing that in many an image there is more than meets the eye Photo Hugh […]