Street View
Clocks slowly crawl back hundreds of years ago But the power lines remain snagged in the sky A moped stands like a vestige of a future in the making All the rest is almost biblical, quiet, pastel and peaceful The vendors at their stalls and the ladies in their delicate shawls The photographer sells meat, […]
Crossing the bridge over the river and the rice paddies Racing against the twilight’s extinction man beats donkey And the first will one day be the last in the orders of disorder Night will come to him with swarms of giant bats like flying demons The incubus will come under the guise of night, a […]
Typical scene of an African alfresco kitchen Cooking for the family and selling on the street Giving away food for the street kids An organized bric-a-brac of colorful kitchen wares The poetry of a scene from the simple everyday life People may be poor by ‘western’ standards, but not proletary Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by […]
Sitting on his roadside throne among his entourage The King of Hubcaps sells his shiny plastic wares It is for the blind to behold, all that shines is not gold The king and his army wait for the subject’s penny Photo Hugh Ardoin The Niamey Streets Gallery Hits: 9
Like moths racing against the coming night A helmeted couple ride their moped into the sunset The clouds turn indigo and pink before the blackout The planet is red and ocher with some occasional green spots The colors of the couple’s outfits perfectly match the scene Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery Hits: […]
Slowly walking home as if he was the last man on Earth The future can wait while the cloak night will stop the clocks of time As the evening grows from gold to blue, people gather outside for dinner The oxen patiently wait under the yoke for the moment of their revolution Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Pedaling across the Chinese “bridge of friendship” on River Niger Riding on the metalled road, looking at the rice paddies His boubou is the color of the fields in the evening light The sky turns pink and blue as the night gets ready for the show Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery Hits: […]
Quietly hurrying home before the nightfall A mother and three young girls walk along the newly paved avenues Public lighting still belongs to a remote future, more or less sci-fi The sunset lends soft colors like a balm after the scorching daylight Soon vast bat swarms will fill the sky, and suddenly everything will go […]
At the gentlemen’s club by the grocery stall Idle talk and banter for the end of day socializing Life goes idle at dusk, just before the night-shift Darkness will settle over the city like a blanket on a parrot’s cage Nighthawks and fireflies will come out from the shadow circle To assemble and flutter around […]
Time seems to slow for the dusk hours It is the reprieve from the hot day past until the next People take time off the time to chat and play Tropical night come suddenly, shrouding the city Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery Hits: 19