Discipline and Punish
Halloween in the underground The masquerade without the mask Times before the collective punishment The threat or threat, discipline and punish Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
A selection of images from the 2011 Carnival My first live experience of the gig nine years ago It was the year of the London riots Under a strong police presence Every year a new excuse To discipline and punish… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill Carnival 2011 Gallery
Law-abiding girl waits at the crossing Under the scrutiny of a million guillotines Sash windows and zebra crossings of London fame Discipline and punish, cross the line, be the naughty girl, Drop your knickers down and get drummed out of the brownies… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The old Accra is famous for its boxing schools The choice of the name is another matter Reminds me of “Discipline and Punish” by Michel Foucault A famous philosophical work about education, society and its prisons It matters what we learn, but it matters even more how we think… Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by any […]
Blue Tonka trucks and black barbie dolls rolled out to rewrite a toy story Under the discipline and punishment of the Met-Blue hordes Something both jubilant and savage, a kind of colonial mass conversion The blessing and quasi-atonement of a contrived new-age global religion But the beauty is in the instant we see and the […]
Like a river’s estuary pouring into the sea A place where waters never really mix, they slowly blend A blue stream of riot police cuts through the dancing crowd Sullen and silent procession shunning the people’s joy The Empire’s dubious legacy rests on their uniforms Serial numbers to serve and obey at their master’s orders […]