Photo Hugh Ardoin
The sky unfurls its clouds like the standards of a huge marching army Erratic tropical moods draw patterns of shadows and light on the tarmac White stripes invite fleeting memories clad with music, a Seven Nation Army Long haul-long vehicles speed along the road from Accra to Lomé The devil is never far away, he […]
Oglers and stargazers are all eyes for the show Two beautiful young performers in torero bikinis Flaunting their unfair advantages in the face of would-be competition Gliding dreamlike golden surfers stealing the steel band’s show Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The indigenous Guarani are the Princes without the land They roam the streets of Asunción, street vendors or plain homeless They bring to my memory this amazing book “Castaways” Written by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca a Spanish Conquistador about his shipwrecks Around 1527 he was captured to subsequently escape from native tribes in what […]
Walking by two, like a side effect of punch Dancers on the warpath just getting serious about fun Golden costumes that make them look like humanoids Generously re-shaped C3POs with spanking new bodyworks Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
A young woman walking the bridge over the River Volta Carrying her business fortune of the day on her head Clouds float lazily in the sky, crossing the river without a drop Ethereal Narcissuses contemplating their reflection in the water Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by any Means Necessary Gallery
Shame and pleasure race to the head as religious beliefs interfere But human emotions take control over the discourse of reason And bodies rock and shock in a psychedelic waltz of life with death The surrounding world is quickly fading into a space-time warp A lion mask of the old dynasty a Medusa rising from […]
Under a bright sky dotted by scattered cumuli The road to go to Togo stretches like a grey snake The treacherous serpent that will coil and strike In an instant of blindness the flash of a crash We know that one day we will die, but on the others we will not… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Temperature rises as the night draws nearer Fun-seekers on the lookout for the easy prey Hunting in packs, wearing little more than warpaint Bruegel meets Rubens somewhere between Heaven and Hell Still a long way to the Garden of Earthly Delights Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The Miao or Hmong people one of the 56 recognized ethnic groups in China They number about 10 million in China alone but are also present in Thailand, Burma and Vietnam were they had emigrated in the 18th Century Beautiful women with beautiful silver alloy headdresses in embroidered costumes They speak three different hmongic languages […]
The sidelines outdo the parade, sometimes.. The odd twerk contest taped by wannabe Kim And the Selfie Queen unseated the Cash King As the crown rolled in the gutter the crowd was signing Bye, bye, Miss American Pie Drove my Chevvy to the levee but the levee was dry… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]