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The Territorial Army parading in London on the 2012 Olympics The spirit of Pierre de Coubertin can no longer offended It has long been buried alive by money and politics They go together like the cadaver and the vultures Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency
Shooting the fashion show on the sidelines Two young beauties seek overnight Internet fame Big expectations as pixels go mini in the camera phone The buzz is just a vibration when the real world is in silent mode Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The amazing fashion wholesale malls of Guangzhou This one is about boudoir lingerie, you would have guessed The world is awakening and the sun rises in the East This elating feeling of the ‘American Dream’ of the early sixties Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Two young participants who ran the gauntlet Transformed into live Jackson Pollock art Sitting on the kerb recovering from the ordeal Vanity, beauty and youth become museum masterpiece Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Taking a plunging view at the performers as they take a rest on the kerbside A far-fetched inspiration of Hockney’s “Bigger Splash” in reverse without water The genial painting with a genial name an unforgettable image A sea of brown bodies waving and weaving Like water curves alter the visual perception Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Walking along the corridors of urban decay Underground passages with unheeded warnings And improbable imitations of Sauron’s Eye A police state with no police Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
We have long past the mythologies and the fairy tales After Ovid and his fatal Narcissus tale Came the Grimm brothers final Disneyfication As the Queen kept asking her mirror about the fairest Now the selfies have become the latest obsession One young Diosa squanders her beauty over the web To shred a million anonymous […]
Like tropical storms that run on faraway horizons In the tales of old mariners who survived many a wreckage About islands with enchanting names and mermaids unafraid Drowning slowly in crystal blue lagoons Drinking the milk from the coconut The forbidden fruit of a new garden of Eden Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 […]
Waiting for the customer the tourist and the real collector Street calligraphers sit patiently as they have done for centuries Art culture and symbolism the rhetorical alphabet imagery Each letter is a poetic symbolist image like an abstract painting Assembled they become a whole book and its illustrated story Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The old Calabash Carnival Club again with feminine company Male members donning the classic painted fencing mask And dressed in bright multicolor oriental Mamluk style robes Here in a less agitated phase not throwing around the talcum powder Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery