Portrait
As the night wears away The spirits will survive There is always a proof of some degree Cocktail umbrellas ready for the thaw Portrait of the night before A last one for the road… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The fragile balance of light and shadows A moving figure in a perilous ride Skateboard is a show of many skills A world within a world With its own culture and people Shooting stars in the dim sky of ordinary lives ‘Il faut que jeunesse se passe’ Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
From my nightly wanderings Meeting the lords of the Dark Side In a city still shivering from fear Cheap thrills of Janis Joplin’s Hendrix time A wailing echo still resounds in my ears Probably because of my age… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
Universal soldiers of faith wage the battle to win your soul Under the depraved neons of the temple’s merchants Yet unconditional love sometimes needs the whip And the bells ring calling the brethren to flock The end is near, so why bother… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
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