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In today's Guardian, our @AlisonSpycops writes about the BBC drama #Sherwood:
"...the #spycops scandal has hit the mainstream. It’s not going away and neither are we."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/sherwood-spy-cops-police-undercover-officer-tv-seriesHappy National Camera Day!
Here's a shot of war photographer Ernest Brooks pictured on the Western Front, 1917 with the camera he used in action.
Image: Crown copyrightSteve Bray 'could have played more dubstep', agrees parliament https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/steve-bray-could-have-played-more-dubstep-agrees-parliament-20220629222754
Our @DrLConnelly https://ayeright.scot/this-land-the-rooting-of-gypsies-and-travellers/
Why walking fish, knights fighting snails and mischievous monkeys give us so much insight.
https://bbc.in/3njbrUKJubilee Beacon. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham https://youtu.be/gt-3XqC6-bI via @YouTube
Been watching the BBC Drama 'Sherwood' There was 2 murders in Nottinghamshire. Thus resulted in one of the biggest manhunts in Britain.
Anyway , I covered these event in reality back in August 2004. Here is a selection of my piccys from that operation.
https://bit.ly/39X7K3ONew police powers to crack down on unauthorised encampments come into force https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-police-powers-to-crack-down-on-unauthorised-encampments-come-into-force
Help @netpol monitor the impact of the new anti-protest laws https://twitter.com/netpol/status/1541733159443759104
📢 CALL-OUT: the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act comes into force today. Help Netpol monitor the impact of new anti-protest laws on our freedom to dissent! https://netpol.org/2022/06/28/pcsc-act-call-out/
Find out how the new #PolicingAct affects your protest rights 👇
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/pcsc-policing-act-protest-rights/Bindmans : Right or no right to protest? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
https://www.bindmans.com/insight/updates/right-to-protest-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022Equipment of Stop Brexit Man seized as new law comes into force https://youtu.be/SCIIZoutg9s via @YouTube
Do you feel safer then ?
Public safety boost as major justice reforms come into force https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-safety-boost-as-major-justice-reforms-come-into-forceRIP - the right to protest https://twitter.com/snb19692/status/1541697952149807104
They have started already…. This is Parliamentary police just now.
"You can also report police incidents surrounding the act to Netpol, who will be monitoring exactly how the police enforce their new powers. Netpol is also running a campaign to #DefendDissent to resist the new legislation" https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2022/06/28/priti-patel-must-be-rubbing-her-hands-with-glee-as-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-finally-comes-into-force/ @TheCanaryUK
Police swoop on Stop Brexit Man under new anti-protest law https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/28/police-swoop-on-stop-brexit-man-under-new-anti-protest-law?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1656427955
If you want to relive the #Glastonbury2022 come to #Bristol on Thursday night 6-8pm at the Martin Parr Foundation, I'll be showing work from @ShangrilaGlasto #GlastonburyonSea along with my mums Sheelagh Hunter photos from the 1970 Isle of Wright #festival #photography free drink
Nude photo series recaptures the spirit of the original Glastonbury https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/ via @creativeboom
https://youtu.be/or68GXDk4D0
Woman Captures Cloud Formation That Looks Like an Ocean in the Sky https://petapixel.com/2022/06/27/woman-captures-cloud-formation-that-looks-like-an-ocean-in-the-sky/
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- Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol
- Jubilee Beacon Burning. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham
- Jubilee Beacon. Woodthorpe Park Nottingham
- Free Party. A Retrospective. Party party
- Free Party . A Retrospective at Lost Horizon. Bristol . Outside Billboards
- Stand with Ukraine... 3 months on
- Large 'billboard' prints outside the show
- Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
- Projection Art Installation in the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
- Irina Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event
- Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool
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An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
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Recent Posts
- Free Party. A Retrospective. Party party 7 June 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol 7 June 2022
- Police chiefs shift on protest guidance a partial success, but still a missed opportunity 26 May 2022
- National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Protest Operational Advice Document. Version 3.3 (April 2022) 26 May 2022
- Stand with Ukraine… 3 months on. Protest in Nottingham 25 May 2022
- “It’s never too far” : The inside story of Castlemorton – History’s most infamous rave 24 May 2022
- The 1992 gathering led to a wave of controversial legislation targeting free parties, Roma and New Age travellers. 24 May 2022
- 30 years ago this week was a rave so chaotic that it shook Middle England to its core – DJMag TikTok 24 May 2022
- Tash on festivals, free party, rave, Castlemorton, Stonehenge, Beanfield etc etc … and so on…. DJ Mag 24 May 2022
- An earlier example of pictures for a DiY article in DJ Mag 1992 24 May 2022
- DiY Sound System: Anarchist Ravers of Castlemorton : Vice Video 23 May 2022
- BBC Tash Interview about Castlemorton 23 May 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol 23 May 2022
- Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol 23 May 2022
- Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective 20 May 2022
- Projection Art Installation in the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University 18 May 2022
- “Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: 18 May 2022
- DiY on Snapchat : Vice report 15 May 2022
- Free Party Exhibition – A Retrospective, Bristol 15 May 2022
- Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine 12 May 2022
Quotes & Thoughts
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa
Monthly Archives: January 2003
Photographers Information Lists: ProDIG.org and EPUK – Editorial Photographers UK I have just joined this group on digital photography: and it seem like I might learn a load. ProDIG the forum for professional digital image makers http://www.prodig.org An email forum … Continue reading
Self Portrait: Fill-in Flash and long exposure Technical notes: Trying to learn a little more, on ‘fill-in flash’ and movement. In this instant, the ambient light was bright / hazy. Because I was using HP5 @ 400asa, [ie quite fast … Continue reading
Hippyland! – for all things hippy, apparently …….. http://www.hippy.com They say “The site is dedicated to the hippie in all of us. Hippies young and old will find a very active community here.” ‘Tis all a bit american-centric for my … Continue reading
‘What Past? Whose Past – Who Owns Stonehenge? University of Reading: School of Continuing Education: Town Hall Lectures 2003: This is one of the many lectures, organised by the University of Reading: School of Continuing Education, spring Season Have contributed … Continue reading
Pub music scene ‘under threat’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2452103.stm The live music circuit across England and Wales could suffer under government plans to change licensing laws, the Musicians’ Union has warned. Pubs and bars without an entertainment licence will no longer be able … Continue reading
‘What Past? Whose Past – Who Owns Stonehenge? University of Reading: School of Continuing Education: Town Hall Lectures 2003: This is one of the many lectures, organised by the University of Reading: School of Continuing Education, spring Season Have contributed … Continue reading
Statewatch press release, 29 January 2003 UK: Surveillance of communications doubles under Labour A special analysis on the surveillance of telecommunications by Statewatch shows that the authorised surveillance in England, Wales and Scotland has more than doubled since the Labour … Continue reading
Photography and Blogs There are some with an interest in photography, that use blogs. Here a selection that I watch with interest: Photography/Programming/Photojournalism/Tech News http://www.jimfri.com/blog photojunkie http://www.photojunkie.org StillPixels http://www.stillpixels.org Picture Yourself http://pictureyourself.org photography the [lomo] blog archives http://lomoblog.com/2.0 Jeff Shafer’s … Continue reading
Self-Portraits: Reflections in a CD Shot these of my reflection in a CD, using a flashgun exposed by TTL. Trying to come across all digital!! ..
Exodus : Raves / Party in America Hello all: in the interests of international relations, I’m putting up this mail, just received from the States, about the commonality of our problems with the authorities, both side of the atlantic. Just … Continue reading
Info from eFestivals re: glastonbury 2003 licence hearing After initial refusal, there’s another licence hearing with the local authorities on 17th February, http://www.festivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury the progress of all this, will of course, have influences on what happens in and around Stonehenge. … Continue reading
Spam E-mail etc. my suggestions Am heartily fed up with these folks filing my mailbox and mobile phone! Just like everyone else is, I suppose. A lady called Sandra who continually asks if I ‘remember’ her. Ads for viagra and … Continue reading
SHOUT-OUT – SchNEWS ANNUAL 2003 Believe it or not but preparations are underway for this year’s SchNEWS book. We are after articles, pics, cartoons, photos, subverts, and stuff from the period April 2002 onwards. News of stuff you’ve been part … Continue reading
Digitals: my viewers and their addition to the work! People frequently download an image from my website. They prat around with it a bit, and send the results back to me. Here are a couple of recent examples, I thought … Continue reading
Surveillance cameras, yet more of em………. Have just photographed the new addition to the surveillance armoury of Nottingham City Council . This examples has just sprouted up on the Abbottsbury Road in the ‘deprived’ area of St Anns, Nottingham. A … Continue reading
The Travellers School Charity – Skool Bus: Computer Classroom Report http://www.bouckley.plus.com/report2002/report.html AIMS To assess the need for a computer classroom to provide education to Travellers’ children, feasibility study and a trial run for a more permanent project. To raise an … Continue reading
drugs and clubs: (a rough guide to your rights) Entering the club Clubs have the right to search anyone entering their premises, and must provide searchers of both sexes. They can refuse entry to anyone who refuses a search and … Continue reading
drugs and clubs: (a rough guide to your rights) Entering the club Clubs have the right to search anyone entering their premises, and must provide searchers of both sexes. They can refuse entry to anyone who refuses a search and … Continue reading
Learning Direct This yet another UK Government ‘learning’ initiative! ‘ Learning Direct’ http://www.learndirect.co.uk However, we all need to keep up, don’t we. So have just signed up for this course. It is a distance learning course, admistered by People College, … Continue reading
Yahoo Messenger These instant messenger program must combine, eventually! I have ICQ, Microsoft Messenger, Netmeeting, Chat etc etc. But to talk to a couple of folks, I need Yahoo Messenger as well. This is the contact for me, on this … Continue reading