These are some photos from this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. It was as fun as ever this year, although as it rained on the Sunday for a (pretty short) period, the Monday was properly rammed, possibly more so than in the past couple of years. I thought it felt a little bit safer than last year, and the only trouble we saw was (surprise, surprise), at the D&B stage. Some young bloke started getting pretty aggressive with a lot of the people nearby him, typically just as we were walking past. One of the MCs onstage managed to stop the music and started screaming at him. She was properly angry, and had a don’t-fuck-with-me attitude about her that would brook no argument. She sounded like an mother whose children had tried it on one too many times. In the end, she could the whole crowd screaming “out, out, out”, at him, until he was manhandled away from the crowd round a corner, out of sight, out of mind. It was a pretty impressive display! These photos are mainly from the roads around All Saints Road and Westbourne Park Road. I shot them again with some Fuji Velvia in the T2. I still like the results, but Carnival isn’t the easiest place to shoot, and it shows. Click them to see extra bigness.
