Notting Hill Carnival 2012
Preparing to parade after the one year wait Young black beauty in white feather headdress Anxious and happy almost ready to perform The moment of ecstasy for the dancers A new body free and a spirit flying high But the future looks gloomy for Carnival The occasion is too good for the gentry To change […]
Spartan look for this armed and dangerous beauty Parading designer military fatigues fit for a bedroom general No doubt the Pepsi is laced with some explosive Molotov stuff Unflinching and ready to jump into the fray The fate of the battle will forever elude me Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery
Carnival is a crowd with a mask of many facets and faces About a million participants and spectators on the street A tumultuous stream moving up and down the hill On the sidelines those too tired to swim become beached You may read their faces and the messages from their eyes The tides of the […]
Just another flashback on the intense moments of the 2012 vintage Shot through interstices in a thick wall of bodies, the end of the trip Two girls half-collapsed on the floor waiting to recover Brandy and spliffs the genial mix… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery
Shop till you drop may be East’s motto But double-Gin T is West London’s credo And it will make sure you drop faster Samuel P’s Clash of Civilizations is a bunch of words A verbal barricade spilled from a broken cold war fridge The quest for the final enemy to fuel an Orwellian war Photo […]
Young crowd flashmob style to get a group portrait It was just the beginning of the selfish selfie trend Over the years the patterns of social behaviors change People accept to be filmed and photographed with a phone Phone is like family, but tend to get shy in front of a real camera Photo Hugh […]
Here they come, the precious gems of Africa shining like diamonds Like the Koh-i-Noor , the Mountain of Light of Persian fame Jewels of the Crown acquired under the strains of colonial wars Barely one and a half thousand years of “lawful robbery” How does this compare with temporarily lost earlier civilizations We talk about […]
Anonymous beauty looking at my artificial eye through her mechanical eye At the threshold of the virtual age artificial intelligence will offer artificial love With love-bots against love-boats, and love-making machines repeating ad nauseam, I love you… Living mummies unwrapping their celestial bodies to obey our human sexual whims And finally strangle us in the […]
Music and booze is the lethal mix Two young girls wasted long before the day is over Rest and recuperate under some friend’s protection Carnival becomes a wild place if you lose your grip on yourself Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery
Young beauties in colors spinning down Chepstow Big smiles light up the street as they rush past flying low The “Brazilian touch” is supposed to bring exoticism to the exotic Unfortunately some groups are paid professional performers This is an attempt by some ill-intentioned to change the Carnival into a Festival This would allow them […]