Celebration
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 […]
Carnival is more than an addiction it is a liberation Year after year the come there to inebriate themselves on the spirit of freedom A young mother carries her own little Jesus to the celebration of black culture Complete with cap and ear protection but sure he gets the message Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
The temperature rises above street level as the crowd prance and dance A blonde girl in red with bright red lipstick and a mask laughs her head off She is covered with black molasses as the Jab celebration duly requires It is the moment of glee when we forget our woes until it all wanes […]
When the expected meets the unexpected The butterfly effect and the theory of chaos We all gathered here with one single hope That in the end this celebration would bring change But each of us wished for a different outcome One butterfly will change the world at a flap of its wing It will take […]
On Carnival days generations and race are not an obstacle to jubilation Two young black beauties in high spirits entertain an elderly lady Notting Hill Carnival was started by Claudia Jones Cumberbatch After the 1958 race riots the first Caribbean Carnival took place in St Pancras in 1959 It helped bring the communities together to […]
A small piece of the polar circle for London’s Christmas celebration My pagan imagination was wandering in the burning desert Three wise men laden with presents, following a shooting star To find the mythical manger, the newborn god-child, the donkey and the ox Folklore passes the heritage of social myths and beliefs to the next […]
Posing for a picture she may never see A young Jamaican beauty opts for a serious look Moments of high and lows in a frenzy out of control A crowd reveling and moving like a single beast Nothing is human or physical anymore it is the spirit There are no separate bodies but cells of […]