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- Facebook Pix : Celebrating the Syrian Revolution in Nottingham 14 December 2024
- Speech by Shuguftah Quddoos, the EX- Sheriff of Nottingham on the cuts 4 December 2024
- Photography : The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman 30 November 2024
- ‘If I cannot speak up without being sanctioned, I cannot remain’: Former Sheriff of Nottingham quits Labour Party 29 November 2024
- The Guardian view on the ‘spy cops’ inquiry: police lies are finally being exposed 28 November 2024
- Expert Blog: The future of digital arts education 28 November 2024
- How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’ 26 November 2024
- Left Lion : Smokescreen DiY Sound Systems 19 November 2024
- House and proud: a retrospective of Smokescreen Soundsystem 19 November 2024
- Landing at Birmingham from Malaga 7 November 2024
- Take off from Malaga for Birmingham 7 November 2024
- On the Road from Granada to Malaga 6 November 2024
- Alhambra, Granada. Spain 4 November 2024
- The undercover copper who spied on Keir Starmer and seduced the activist the young Leftie lawyer was representing. 25 October 2024
- Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987. 15 October 2024
- The Battle of Cable Street 4 October 2024
- Castlemorton Picture : Guardian online 28 September 2024
- Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today 28 September 2024
- Photography Turns 200 Years Old Today 17 September 2024
- “That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps – two years on 13 September 2024
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: Photography
Photography : The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman
Expert Blog: The future of digital arts education
Michael Marsden, Executive Dean of the Nottingham School of Art & Design Expert Blog: The future of digital arts education Though few people realise it, one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK right now is the creative industries … Continue reading
How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’
Thirty years ago, more than 500 activists united to save a street – and their actions marked a major turning-point in the environmental movementSteve RoseTue 26 Nov 2024 10.00 GMT Walking through Leyton, in east London, you could easily miss … Continue reading
Left Lion : Smokescreen DiY Sound Systems
House and proud: a retrospective of Smokescreen Soundsystem
Words: Vita FitzSimons, Left Lion Photos: Matt Smith, Alan Tash Lodge, Gary Pfeiffer, Nick Clague @kush1969, Henry Ratcliffe Tuesday 19 November 2024 Being home to two of the UK’s greatest underground house soundsystems, DiY and Smokescreen, Nottingham has been spoilt for quality deep … Continue reading
Castlemorton Picture : Guardian online
Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today
Castlemorton Common rave, 1992 By Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge This snapshot of gurning ravers was taken at the largest illegal rave in UK history. Alan “Tash” Lodge had been attending free festivals since the 70s. On a sunny bank holiday weekend in … Continue reading
Photography Turns 200 Years Old Today
Sep 16, 2024 Jeremy Gray Photography turned 200 years old today, September 16, according to French photography publication Réponses Photo. In its latest issue, number 373, the longtime magazine marked photography’s 200th birthday. There are a lot of candles on that bicentennial birthday … Continue reading
Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall
Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #hucknall #tourofbritain #cycling #race #insta360 #acepro #4k
Nottingham celebrates opening of Green Heart – a brand-new space for community and nature in heart of the city
Nottingham celebrated the opening of a brand-new green space today (Wednesday 4 September) in a key milestone for the wider Broad Marsh regeneration project. Local schoolchildren from Mellers Primary School were among the first to explore the area, learning about … Continue reading
Nottingham Green Festival Report on NottsTV
@Notts_TV. scroll to 39min 30secs
Tash at the Broadway Gallery Exhibition
https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-history-nottingham-green-festival
Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough
Introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history. An exhibition in Broadway’s Gallery Featuring work by local photographer Alan Lodge and memorabilia. Learn about the festival’s history and community. Find out about how you can support this year’s festival by becoming a volunteer. The exhibition … Continue reading
Broadway Listing : Introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history
Introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its historyhttps://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-history-nottingham-green-festival An exhibition in Broadway’s GalleryFeaturing work by local photographer Alan Lodge and memorabilia. Learn about the festival’s history and community. Find out about how you can support this year’s festival by becoming … Continue reading
Broadway Gallery Exhibition : A show introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history
A show introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history. Photography by Alan Lodge http://alanlodge.co.uk and memorabilia. Exhibition will run from Wednesday 28th August to Sunday 1st September 2024 Nottingham Green Festival :: The Arboretum, Sunday, 8th September 2024 Nottingham … Continue reading
Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins
Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins Slideshow announcing 30 Years of the Nottingham Green Festival …. continuing from the ‘Peace Festival’. Show to accompany an exhibition at the Broadway Gallery, Nottingham. August 28th to 1st September.
Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit]
Sunday 18th August 2024. Parade and Stage. The Nottingham Carnival is a superb multi-cultural event held every summer. This event is a not-for-profit community organisation, supported by sponsors, stallholders, advertisers, performers, troupes, supporters and volunteers who help make the Nottingham … Continue reading
Report : Under the Rainbow | Documents and Artefacts from Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation
A retrospective by The Sparrows’ Nest, People’s Histreh, CJ DeBarra and Alan Lodge. Read this as a pdf document. From Thursday 25th July to Sunday 4th August 2024 we put on an exhibition at Broadway Cinema Gallery to coincide with Nottingham Pride. We worked with our … Continue reading
Under the Rainbow : Documents and Artefacts From Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation
An Exhibition at Broadway Cinema Open from 7.00pm tonight : chance to see the extra material, add to the photos, that I’d like to see for Green Festival show there Broadway Cinema @BroadwayCinemaWe’ll be sharing the work of @tashukfrom today … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Mission to Porto, Portugal
https://tinyurl.com/27n699xe Made a presentation at the KISMIF Conference about my photography, travellers, festivals etc, University of Porto, PortugalMore about it all here – https://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/archives/24354 …. but then spent a few days as a tourist, gadding about in Porto. Here are … Continue reading
