Notting Hill Carnival 2018
Blunt portrait shots in the crowd is like some close-combat fight Assuming they are transparent, passerbys constantly interfere with your subject You have to swim against the human tide to take a few quick shots But your eyes will never meet as the crowd grips you to drag you away Like a drunken sailor fallen […]
Young black beauties in skimpy outfits take a pause They light a legit looking cigarette and puff away the smoke Sweet young dragons playing with fire seeping the poisons of life We probably all play the fatal hide and seek with death sometime in our life The slow Russian roulette with a self-loading gun it […]
It is twerk and shout, shake it up baby, like an old twist song of the sixties Hands on her hips and bumper to bumper, the mix is shaping the street Every little step in the direction of acceptance of the difference is a victory We are immensely grateful to Claudia Cumberbatch Jones for her […]
The girl with kaleidoscopic eyes has a ticket to ride The red double decker the old souvenirs of the quartet Who sang ‘she’s got a ticket to ride’, I was then in my early teens The first parties under the vigilance of an army of mommies Sporting crazy ‘permed’ hairdos that looked like crash helmets […]
The sharp edge of the new moon tore at the night sky And through the rant in the deep blue bedsheet, the stars spilled in the street They fell to the earth in a fiery Perseid storm, an alien invasion after the long drought So we will slake our thirst at the brim of their […]
Beauty strikes again along bohemian Chepstow Road She looks like a mysterious Princess from faraway lands Or rather some warrior queen heroine from Enki Bilal’s strips Flaunting long copper-colored braids to mesmerize the wanderers In the way candles attract moths in their fatal circle of light Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery […]
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 […]
The king of the moment strolls down Chepstow in his underwear A black beauty queen at his right arm and a shapely blonde at his left Cloud nine is just halfway between heaven and hell in this brave new world We follow our inclinations in the hot pursuit of unattainable dreams The quest follows a […]
All the earthly goodies, cold champagne is like ice on fire and a smile to beckon From the gates of Eden you can see the spiralling staircase of Hell And through the billowing smoke the flames of the bonfires burning below Running blind and empty on the winding road to your destiny You will reach […]