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You will be anointed here or at least your hair will be The first steps to sanctification in the holy alfresco salon This is Accra on a business day waiting for the goddesses Will you be a different you with your new hairdo There is no hurry heaven can wait… Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by […]
The image is here to stay, the caption is just circumstantial The girl is gone with the music the “make-up” is the trend of the day, like a ritual Nothing is forever all we have is the memories, plucked out of the river of time The images haunt us or soothe us it is a […]
A vicar walks his old dog in the London mews The romantic scene comes with some warnings The dog looks like one of the hounds of Apocalypse A sign on a closed door cautions about deep excavations Could this possibly be Hell ? It was a cold and sunny day… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Young beauty passing by gives a wink and a smile to the camera An irresistible high flyer spells the mirage of the invitation to a dream The reminder of the passing of time and all the beautiful flowers But the Garden of Eden is at the very end of the road And my hand is […]
Walls come in different shapes and colors They share the same purpose of segregation The outside and the inside are arbitrary definitions Doors are the initiation passage between the kingdoms The sign above the door both an indication and an expectation The night porter is set for his shift with seats and TV set The […]
The parade is like a magic lantern Faces appear in a flash between silhouettes And they disappear in the flow of bodies and colors Catch the glimpse like an angler looking for the silvery fish Carried away by a human tide, lost without a sign Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2015 Carnival Gallery Hits: […]
Sitting on a bright yellow grit container A nonplussed commuter waits to commute Probably in need for a disassembly-reassembly Life come as a kit, you assemble it Sometimes a part is missing The fur hat and mobile brain surrogate are essentials Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery Hits: 20
She stands here covered with paint undaunted and defiant The incarnation of the spirit of Masquerade to claim her freedom We still live in the legacy of the slave trade and the colonies It will not go away until that part of the world seeks the Pardon from the other And sincerely repent for the […]
Corporate finance life size tombstones stand on Canary Wharf Standing shafts of steel and glass erected to some immortal CEO’s ego Cathedrals to the capital, endless cornucopia and Black Fridays Towers of a thousand sills, diving boards for the storms to come Pyres for dying Empires that were deemed too big to fall Photo Hugh […]
In search for a new balance and the next bitter Young beauty leans on a truck and tries to collect herself Spirits fly high to the head, but the landing could prove treacherous Hopefully friends will lend a hand to keep her out of mischief This is what friends are here for… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]