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Decorated shopping alleys shimmering like an everlasting Christmas night The heart of the city throbbing with the new Chinese Dream fever Avenues of hope gorged with junk food and consumer lures Designer decoys of happiness blur the line between dream and reality Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Like the cold and beautiful heroine Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac Leaning from the height of her balcony listening to the prose of her pretenders Discarding hearts one after the other like tin soldiers, they are whole army here below The story will follow the course of its passionate whims like a rushing river And […]
Guangzhou comes to a new life during the night It becomes a rainbow of neon lights floating along the waterways Beyond the light-show, there is a forest of towers and concrete slabs Where the shadows of rare passerbys slip away like furtive foxes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Wearing heart-shaped rings at the tip of her ears A young beauty glides across Chepstow Impervious to the glances and the calls Alone she cuts through the carnival crowds Shiny blue rhinestones on her brow Two bleeding hearts hanging from her ears Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Statues stand to claim their share of eternity in the Tuileries Garden Snapped-up into an ephemeral digital age, Cain is shamed again and again The ideal scapegoat always on time while free speech is brought to the gallows Carved marble finger pointing has become the universal single opinion But it is the perceived preferences of […]
Green girls roaming on the Notting Hill Streets Martian visitors on a mission or space wanderers Under the bemused eyes of the boys in blue Curiosity rovers, invaders in disguise, All aliens to other’s eyes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Under the mottled shadow of a hot summer day A twerking girl gets a helping hand from a friend While all the gawkers get to caress with the eyes Only a selected few will get the full body-body treat Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Cruising along the concrete avenues of a Shanghai night Watching the towers’ flowering light illuminate the sky The dazzling reflections running on a polished taxi hood Lights and signs shine like semaphores full of secret messages Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Sweet doe-eyed young couple Love-letters like banners floating over their foreheads Not a frown, just the surprise at the camera For a short heartbeat instant, the shutter broke the spell Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Towers of light rise over the city to keep the night at bay An army of burning giants’ last stand against the dark skies The avenues below are like deep shining canyons Where cars, obeying to some secret order, Form a hurried procession of gleaming ants Thriving to serve their invisible Queen, somewhere beyond Photo […]