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Load More...Police & Crime Bill is currently before parliament. A wide variety of folks are opposed to it because of restrictions on enviro, protest, unions, attacks of travellers & criminal trespass. Please organise. Resent speech at protest https://youtu.be/Kx0_4Nf5Y28 @NottmGreenFest
A Slideshow 60mins. 400pics Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Policemen and ........ >> https://youtu.be/ehsPTpSVzhQ
Sunflowers: a feast for your eyes, and for pollinators | Alys Fowler https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/10/sunflowers-a-feast-for-eyes-and-pollinators-alys-fowler?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
The week in wildlife – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/apr/09/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw
@CrimeLdn Blimey! Here's something odd!
Why weren't @metpoliceuk out at this vigil, destroying all the flowers & tributes, throwing women to the ground & handcuffing them like they did at that other vigil just a few weeks ago?Hardly a trace left of illegal rave by revellers https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/19210725.dorstone-rave-hardly-trace-left-revellers/?ref=twtrec
Freedom Press@Freedom_Paper"Resistance has to be on the streets and consist of direct action and disobedience. The act has to be made unenforceable" #FreedomToProtest #KillTheBill https://twitter.com/Freedom_Paper/status/1380073691258748928
RECLAIM THE 90s!: Parallels and differences between the CJA and the policing bill and routes to resistance https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/08/reclaim-the-90s-parallels-and-differences-between-the-cja-and-the-policing-bill-and-routes-to-resistance/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/08/reclaim-the-90s-parallels-and-differences-between-the-cja-and-the-policing-bill-and-routes-to-resistance/
Thinking inside the box: the Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia
English university asks students to lobby MPs over lockdown easing https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/07/english-university-asks-students-to-lobby-mps-over-lockdown-easing?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617815101
How London Could Effectively Decriminalise Cannabis https://www.vice.com/en/article/akd5xb/how-london-could-effectively-decriminalise-cannabis via @vice
Head of police force criticised over Bristol protests to step down https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/07/head-of-police-force-criticised-over-bristol-protests-to-step-down?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617794703
The Truth About Police Stop and Search | Channel 4 #stopandsearch #policestops https://www.channel4.com/press/news/truth-about-police-stop-and-search
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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.
YouTube
- Speech at the Kill the Bill demo, Nottingham
- A Rock's Timelapse [in my backyard]
- Kill the Bill protest, Nottingham March 2021
- Zine 35 Traveller Vehicles 40p
- Drawing on Free Parties and tings
- Drawing on Festivals, Travellers and tings
- Drawings on Free Parties & tings [phone version]
- Creswell Crags, Derbyshire
- Peak District in BW
- St Ann's Allotments in December
- Zine 22 Graffiti, Writing on the Wall
- Zine 11 Nottingham Carnival Full Colour version
- Zine 26 New Perspectives on Nottingham
- Zine 23 Google 360 Camera
- Zine 21 Two Ponds 40p
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Recent Posts
- Slide show operations 2 at Glastonbury 2008 10 April 2021
- Slide show operations 1 at Glastonbury 2008 10 April 2021
- a very cross anarchist 9 April 2021
- Rasta singer portrait 9 April 2021
- Shades and a top hat. a portrait 9 April 2021
- Tyranny 9 April 2021
- One less 9 April 2021
- Attitude 8 April 2021
- Singer portrait 8 April 2021
- RECLAIM THE 90s!: Parallels and differences between the CJA and the policing bill and routes to resistance 8 April 2021
- Guitarist 7 April 2021
- Tipi in Wales 7 April 2021
- DiY Party 6 April 2021
- Miko 6 April 2021
- Gritty portrait 6 April 2021
- Duet 5 April 2021
- Criminalising A Way of Life – The Impact of The Bill on Travellers 5 April 2021
- Gypsies and Travellers Are Under Attack – And So Are Our Collective Freedoms 5 April 2021
- Portrait 5 April 2021
- Singer 5 April 2021
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: December 2009
NUJ Code of Conduct
NUJ Code of Conduct [I do this ….. i hope others do also] A journalist 1 At all times upholds and defends the principle of media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and the right of the public to … Continue reading
Account of a watercolour painter, going through the same troubles as photographers
Account of a watercolour painter, going through the same troubles as photographers, with inadequate policing. I was stopped and searched twice near London City airport – for watercolouring! I was not even facing the airport. I was painting the Tate … Continue reading
Statement by Assistant Commissioner John Yates. Metropolitan Police
NEWS RELEASE From Press Bureau at New Scotland Yard – last updated Mon 14/12/09 16:31 Telephone: 020 7230 2171 http://www.met.police.uk/pressbureau/bur14/page3.htm Statement by Assistant Commissioner John Yates John Yates, Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations, has today reminded all MPS officers and staff … Continue reading
Recent photography restriction stories
Some links to just the last couple days of photography restriction stories. We are collecting hundreds now. What value are the chief constable’s words? – BJP 9 December 2009 http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=871763 ‘I’m a photographer not a terrorist’ badge leaves police unconvinced … Continue reading
Photographer makes formal IPCC complaint:
Everyone that has watched the flow for the last couple of weeks of police restriction and general arsiness, might conclude there is nothing photographers can do about these stop and searches, is there? They the police, they can do what … Continue reading
Photographers And Their iPhones – Digital Photo Tips and More on PopPhoto.com
more on what i’m trying to do with my camera on my mobile. I am in good company::: Writers are often given the sage advice that to keep the creative juices flowing, they should write something, anything, every day. Artists … Continue reading
Letter on photography sent by the Association of Chief Police Officers to Chief Constables
This is a copy of a letter sent by the Association of Chief Police Officers to Chief Constables and Commissioners across England and Wales on Saturday: >> 4 December 2009 To: all Chief Constables and Commissioners Dear Colleague Section 44 … Continue reading
British Journal of Photography – Political divides?
British Journal of Photography – Political divides? The National Union of Journalists is standing firm behind the creation of its first photographers’ branch, despite internal divisions that have threatened its launch. Olivier Laurent reports IN BJP ……. “Instead, Jeremy Dear, … Continue reading