hugh ardoin
Those were the days my friend, in 2011 when flames of rage spread out of control The whole East End was on fire after the “lawful killing” of Mark Duggan The beast must die, as they cull the “animals” in the ghetto reservations Can you forget, can you forgive the unrepentant abiding by the law […]
Slaughterhouses with towers are called castles We send sheep in battalions followed by wailing ambulances As the sun it shines high and bright in a cold blue sky Stray clouds spread veils of transparency over the universe’s nudity And a dark wall stands tall between the dream and reality To blind the naked eye of […]
The Bridge of Freedom spans the Rio Parana Between the free trade city of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay And next door Brazil with a tax free exemption on all you can carry But you have to cross the bridge on foot in a wire mesh fence corridor Running the gauntlet of tax free for […]
Ciudad del Este a frontier city at the Iguazu Falls At the common border of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina More than a multi-border town it is a thriving human cluster With an official population of about 300 000 souls But many many more of the soulless type The second largest free economic zone in the […]
Like the pit stop at Ben-Hur’s chariot race The organized chaos of an African market Where confusion of an artful palette of colors Set an impressionist scene where lights and dust play Languid bodies and reclining souls, a couple flirting in the distance In a haze of a burning spotlight reaching its zenith in the […]
Happenings build up and dissipate like running street battles It is the Notting Hill smoke and spirits induced dance fever Let the children in yourself play pretend, the divas and daffodils game Dance is a life reading of the long-short road from seduction to possession Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
From the top of the well you get a glimpse of infinity The vast nothingness of the desert that moves and breathes It is the “thing” that kills or let you live it is both cruel and gracious Like a “femme fatale” it will play with you in the manner of a cat To suddenly […]
On the threshold of a dream, so said the Moody Blues Two ladies squeeze in a doorway watching the flow From the sidelines, the Masquerade looks bigger and brighter Like the city lights seen at night from an airplane window The living memories of the first Carnival, the first crush The first heartbreak… Photo Hugh […]
Floating like a white ghost in a black crowd In his mouth a red balloon with white spots An hallucinated magician with a poisonous shroom The Masquerade is a kaleidoscope of illusions They are apparitions that belong to hallucination A photograph may record or distort the instant Maybe it is just some kind of surreal […]
All dressed-up gran making videos of the unique moment Looking askance and half-surprised by my portrait shot In a world of selfies where phones are touted as cameras Real cameras look suspicious, probably the paparazzi syndrome Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery