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Stop motion of a dancing couple The fever just rose and won’t drop again Caught on the picture forever dancing While Carnival’s existence is threatened Hope that BLM will save the year It was the original purpose Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
BLM demonstration after leaving the US Embassy Crossing Vauxhall Bridge going Westminster in style In the background stands the MI 6 tower, like Mordor Sauron’s eye in every phone and every home, democratically The battle must go on… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates Of Emergency Gallery
Better than the Midas touch, keep the going soft Or else meet the infamous demise of Goldfinger A view with a view from Chepstow row makes you wonder What have you missed in your life as you stand there… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
The coming of age of history in London 2020 At the tail of the demonstration on Hyde Park Corner A lone police woman chief holds the pack of vans Like a pack of hounds at a fox hunt of old Or the plantation police in the Florida Marshes History must come full circle before the […]
The rowdy crowd closes on the performers Movements are restrained and light grows dimmer As in a rainforest progression gets hectic Light comes trough a canopy of feathers It is the dream of Africa and its wilderness The land of every beauty with a thousand faces Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Dramatically and pandemically masked A beautiful Black Lives Matter protester Marching down Park Lane with the angry crowd The pandemic of fear has brought many countries to a standstill With far reaching consequences for the peoples But this is nothing compared to the slave trade genocide The colonization, the segregation and the supremacism they fostered […]
Dazed but happy, a man becomes a masterpiece From Pollock to Klein and back in hectic daubs The timeless initiation rite of the ageless participants We learn day by day as life flows like sand through our fingers Carnival teaches about African history and the urges of patience Changes will come and the longer boats […]
The Bacchanal is the debauch of colors Where participants are generously daubed At an initiation ritual on the heights of Chepstow The devils are then let loose down the Notting Hill Spreading the fear of the underworld rule among the gentry Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival Gallery
As the three graces and the three musketeers were four Young black beauties daubed in molasses strike the pose Tradition dating back to the dark times of the slave trade Emancipated slaves celebrated with the masquerade Thanking the devil rather than the god who had failed them And warning the masters of their impending doom […]
Colorful ballet of Caribbean flags and skins of every shade The girls proudly flaunt their colors in a hectic parade The razzle-dazzle of the all glamorous in skimpy outfits Beauty inside out in all its shapes, the fireworks of life In a dull and duller world, a life-saving injection of joy Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]