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The summer stole the tears from the clouds And the rainbows have become a symbol of the new But the world turns around to come back to the same place You may give the places and the beings other names Paint new colors and claim your rights to the throne Nothing really changes as human […]
Typical scene of an African alfresco kitchen Cooking for the family and selling on the street Giving away food for the street kids An organized bric-a-brac of colorful kitchen wares The poetry of a scene from the simple everyday life People may be poor by ‘western’ standards, but not proletary Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by […]
The surreal ambiance of the Carnival ids not a Magritte painting The crazed colors and the beautiful wild feathered girls The crowd is a giant human maelstrom that want to drown you Swimming in a sea of moving limbs you get stabbed by an apparition The glimpse of a dancing body, the gleam of an […]
The man in the tin shed has great expectations Selling his wares to customers with even bigger dreams Bright blue shining wheelbarrows sleek like airplanes Spools of galvanized steel wire long enough to fence your world Top-up cards for the lonely hearts and the penniless Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by any Means Necessary Gallery Hits: […]
Two fun seeking ladies pose for a quick snap The plywood backdrop is the frontier of the primeval fears It separates arbitrarily the haves from the have-nots The spirit of carnival and the music fly high above the walls For two days and three nights the Hill becomes a giant drum The throbbing heart of […]
Under the double glazed windows of the London High Streets The bots undergo kevlar plastic surgery, AI reset and ‘robotox’ service This is the high price for the machines to pay for seduction Big brother is now a sister and your fear will not avoid the changing Time is quickly running out of time as […]
Dancers and the temptresses rest their wings on the way down the hill It will be time enough when the parade reaches the Notting Hill gates At the bottom of the hill the angels will meet their wingless kin And with the succubus, the she-wolves and the vampyres they will dance The masquerade is the […]
Twin bridges cross the same river in an early morning rush The clouds send their mysterious messages up in the sky A signal that something is about to start from this small rivulet Caesar walking into Rome, against the law to fulfill his ambition On the far side, the unrevealed destiny and the hopes will […]
Twerking at the bus-stop with the Big Redroute Two generously endowed black booties compete But to no avail the bus may not be so nimble or gracious But it is much bigger and red with flashing lights Falling into the candy shop quandary ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 19