Photo Hugh Ardoin
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 […]
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
The summer day comes to an end The kindergarten toys are stowed away Little soldiers’ dream of a children’s PLA Space cadets and majorettes dance away in your head Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
What makes the Notting Hill Carnival so exceptional is the mood It is a free event, participants have been waiting a year for this moment Dramas, drunkenness , heartbreaks and loves at first sight happen here Princesses and bohemians, hignesses and lownesses gather together All the stages of life and emotions are unfolding in this […]
A railroad and an umbrella, the initiation voyage Two rails that will meet in the infinity according to geometrical theories Reality is a place between the emptiness of beginning and of that the end Life follows its track under its own umbrella under sun or storm… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
At varying degrees of exposure, The odalisques strut their strut Uninhibited and unfazed conquerors Chepstow is ours, so their bodies claim Who would put up a fight with the amazons? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Two Diosas from both ends of the visible spectre Spare a precious moment of their overbooked agendas To pose for the camera and a chance for instant celebrity Carnival is this place in time where dreams and reality meet They dance behind their masks, but their hands never touch Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]