Portrait
Since the camera exists there have been many social codes for posing From the old fashioned Victorian stern look, almost funerary Post war victory brought the “American cheese” supposedly universal and cool It was the “Pax Americana” of shooting, but difficult for the non-English Followed the Miley Cyrus tongue all out, and later the infamous […]
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 […]
A passing portrait Souvenir from a recent past A Caryatid with earrings Holding the sky above An the inferno at her feet Passing… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The parade is like a magic lantern Faces appear in a flash between silhouettes And they disappear in the flow of bodies and colors Catch the glimpse like an angler looking for the silvery fish Carried away by a human tide, lost without a sign Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2015 Carnival Gallery