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Alleyway, Kenilworth Road by Tish Murtha. From the series Juvenile Jazz Bands (1979).
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- Glastonbury Festivals Slideshow 11 April 2024
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- Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain 11 April 2024
- Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins 10 April 2024
- Film activists better : Media advice for activists 10 April 2024
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- Facebook Pix : Stoney Cross, Hampshire. June 1986 9 April 2024
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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.
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
Tag Archives: exhibition
Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition
The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene By Mark Taylor Life Writer Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of … Continue reading
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H … Continue reading
My Castlemorton Exhibition of Photographs in Berlin. 18 January – March 2024
At the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. As the co-organiser of the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. We are an independent weeklong festival organised with a love for all kinds and genres of short films and … Continue reading
‘Walkthrough’ of my Castlemorton Exhibition, opening in Berlin today
‘Walkthrough’ of my Castlemorton Exhibition, opening in Berlin today British Shorts Film Festival, 18 – 24 January 2024
‘Stop the War’ photo exhibition at the Broadway, Nottingham
Nottingham Opposition and protest to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years ago. 21-24 Sep 2023 This exhibition marks the twentieth anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq and looks back at the movement which opposed it. The anniversary seems … Continue reading
Photographic Exhibition titled: ‘Freedom’
Welcome to an evocative collection of freedom themed photographs, a generous visual response by over two hundred talented photographers. Individually the images illustrate personal notions of freedom, collectively they articulate the nuance of freedom itself from multiple perspectives. A compelling mix … Continue reading
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol [Outside Panels]. Picture : thanks to Nick Clague
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol [Outside Panels]. Picture : thanks to Nick Clague
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H & Jack), Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, photographer … Continue reading
“Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews:
” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting on it. … Continue reading
Free Party Exhibition – A Retrospective, Bristol
I have pictures in this exhibition, which runs from the 20th – 28th May in Bristol 1-3 Elton St, St Jude’s, Bristol BS2 9EH My main event is on the 28th https://www.showponies.studio/work/free-party-a-retrospective SATURDAY 28TH10am – 1pm – Free Entry to … Continue reading
FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May
Lost Horizon …FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May / 12-6pm / FREE On a hot bank holiday weekend 30 years ago, 20,000 people descended on land in the shadow of the Malvern Hills. What started out as … Continue reading
Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition
The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene bristolpost Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of spending a few days … Continue reading
Radical Landscapes : Art, Identity and activism Tate Liverpool
Extract : ” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting … Continue reading
My video : Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool
Radical Landscapes | Trailer | Tate
Tate Liverpool launches its summer 2022 exhibition | The Guide Liverpool
Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
Two reviews in the Guardian … this one is kinder to the show: “…. The trespasses are represented in the show by 1930s press photographs. Images from half a century later, taken by Alan Lodge, of the confrontation now known … Continue reading
Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes
Guardian didn’t like the show .. but liked my bit, well yes, of course “…. Alan Lodge shows slides and videos of free festivals in the late 80s including at Stonehenge; the soundtrack had me wanting to shuffle along with … Continue reading
Morris Dancers ‘blacking up’
Since it’s just past May Day, I thought I’d share some of the discussion I’d had at Tate Liverpool concerning Morris Dancers ‘blacking up’. I have to admit I’d seen the practice for years and had always thought that this … Continue reading