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https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/product/travellersDrawing on Festivals, Travellers and tings
https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/product/drawing-on-festivals-travellers-and-tings“Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6196
One Eye on the Road Slideshow https://youtu.be/or68GXDk4D0 via @YouTube
Next Tuesday May 24 marks the 3rd month of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/724921605415438
Join our campaign in protest at the invasion in Nottingham at 6pm outside the Council House.
For a free, united and victorious Ukraine!UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 7 - (17 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/SKc51wb_zn4 via @YouTube
The Independent@Independentstill looking for a publisher for this evergreen concept yeah? https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1526472400291909635
Piers Morgan got called a 'c**t' live on his own show https://www.indy100.com/tv/piers-morgan-uncensored-trans-activist?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652773231
EXPLAINER: The Public Order Bill 2022 https://netpol.org/2022/05/17/public-order-bill-2022/ via @policemonitor
The Guardian@guardianPriti Patel trails plans to arm the hobby bobbies https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1526316477661560838
Special constables to be given access to stun guns in new crime measures https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652737079
Priti Patel lifts restrictions on police stop and search powers https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/16/restrictions-on-police-stop-and-search-powers-permanently-lifted?CMP=share_btn_tw
A controversial measure announced on Monday will allow officers to stop and search people without reasonable grounds .... The government announced that changes to stop and search without suspicion, so-called section 60 stops, would now be made permanent. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?CMP=share_btn_tw
UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 6 - (16 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/PmWxPh1bqTc via @YouTube
DiY on Snapchat : Vice report http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6189
Castlemorton, May 1992 https://youtu.be/e7k_1gLwGU0 via @YouTube
Taken together with the PCSC Act, these new powers the Home Secretary is trying to have [ie a power grab], will mean Patel will have more option to direct police activity against protest / action the government simply don't like! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/15/priti-patel-accused-of-power-grab-over-new-policing-proposals
Tash on YouTube
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- Irina Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
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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
- “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
- Democracy shrivels in silence. We must protect our right to protest. 12 May 2022
- The shiny new Public Order Bill 11 May 2022
- A Succession of Repetitive Beats 11 May 2022
- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- Irina Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May 8 May 2022
- Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition 8 May 2022
- BBC Click – Virtual Raving 8 May 2022
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR 7 May 2022
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event 7 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes : Art, Identity and activism Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- My video : Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes | Trailer | Tate 6 May 2022
- Tate Liverpool launches its summer 2022 exhibition | The Guide Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art 6 May 2022
- Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes 6 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
Tag Archives: Photography
Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool Video
Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool Activism, trespass, and the climate emergency. Take a fresh look at the British Landscape and the art it inspires. From rural raves in Castlemorton to anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common, this exhibition presents a radical … Continue reading
RADICAL LANDSCAPES
RADICAL LANDSCAPES – TATE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION 5 MAY – 4 SEPTEMBER 2022 Official View © The estate of Claude Cahun Activism, trespass, and the climate emergency. Take a fresh look at the British Landscape and the art it inspires From … Continue reading
The dying art of the photographic darkroom – video
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2011/jan/14/photographing-death-darkroom-video
A Rough Guide to Filming Police Stop and Search
A Rough Guide to Filming Police Stop and Search NetPol https://netpol.org/resources/filming-the-police If you have a smartphone that includes a good quality photo and video camera then you will be able to film the actions of the police during a stop-and-search, if you … Continue reading
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social EngagementPhoto ParlourUnit 8, 18 Queensbridge Road,Nottingham,NG2 1NB Every last Wednesday of the month at 6pm
DiY 30 years. A photographic Exhibition
Photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
A bit of a photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
I regularly go to a photography group here in Nottingham.They / we meet on the last Wednesday of every month at The Photo Parlour … so next one will be Wednesday 23rd Feb at 6pm The Nottingham Photo Social is … Continue reading
British photography
I get a mention with Peter Gardner in this academic piece on British Photography under “The 1970s and 80s: the political turn” …. nice British photography refers to the tradition of photographic work undertaken by committed photographers and photographic artists in the British Isles. This includes those notable photographers from Europe who have made their home in Britain and contributed so strongly to the nation’s photographic tradition, such as Oscar Rejlander, Bill Brandt, Hugo van Wadenoyen, Ida Kar, Anya Teixeira and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. The 1800s: invention and popularisation Many technical innovations in photography were undertaken in Britain during the 19th century, notably by William Fox Talbot and Frederick Scott Archer. Early aesthetic breakthroughs were made by Lewis Carroll, Hill & Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron and the Pre-Raphaelite photographers, and the “father of art photography” Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Travelling photography under adverse conditions was pioneered by war photographer Roger Fenton, and brought to a high level in England by Francis Frith and others. There were a number of local photographic societies scattered throughout Britain, often holding large annual public exhibitions; yet photography was mostly deemed at that time to be a science and a ‘useful craft’, and attempts at making a fine art photography almost always followed the conventions of paintings or theatre tableaux. There were also early earnest attempts at “trick photography”: notably of spiritualist apparitions and ghosts. Studio and travelling photographers had flourished in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but the developing technology eventually allowed the mass-market commercialisation of cameras. With the introduction of the Box Brownie, casual snapshot photography became an accepted feature of British middle-class life from around 1905. =1845–1945: a century of anthropological documentary= British photography has long had a fascination with recording, ‘in situ’, the lives and traditions of the working class in Britain. This can be traced back to Hill & Adamson‘s 1840s records of the fishermen of Newhaven, John Thomson‘s photography for the famous book “Street Life in London” (1876), the street urchin photography of Dr. Barnardo‘s charity campaigns, Peter Henry Emerson’s 1880s pictures of rural life in the East Anglian fenlands, and Sir Benjamin Stone‘s surreal pictures of English folkloric traditions. This Victorian tradition was forgotten once modernism began to flourish from around 1905, but it appeared again in the “documentary” (a word coined in the 1920s by John Grierson) movement of the early and mid 20th century in activities such as Mass Observation, the photography of Humphrey Spender, and the associated early surrealist movement. Documentary pictures of the working people of Britain were later commercialised and popularised by the mass-circulation “picture magazines” of 1930s and 1940s such as “Picture Post”. The “Post” and similar magazines provided a living for notable photographers such as Bill Brandt and Bert Hardy. Also very notable is George Rodger’s London work for the US magazine “Life.” These large-format picture magazines served covertly as a “education in what a good photograph should look like” for their readers, something that was otherwise totally lacking. The British documentary movement contributed strongly to the poetic nature of some wartime early home front propaganda, such as Humphrey Jennings’ approach to film. 1945–1965: the post-war lull After the end of the war, photography in Britain was at a very low ebb. Due to post-war shortages and rationing it was not until about 1954 that it became easy to buy photographic equipment and consumables. As new cameras began to appear, there was debate over the ability to take ‘good’ pictures using old pre-war cameras. This argument was famously answered by “Picture Post” photographer Bert Hardy, who went to the seaside with a simple old Box Brownie camera and came back with some of the most memorable images of England in the mid 1950s. The pre-war picture magazines such as “Picture Post” declined rapidly in quality, and “Picture Post” eventually closed in 1957. Yet the desire to continue the photographic recording of everyday pleasures was evident in the 1950s Southam Street work of Roger Mayne, and also in the early 1960s in the work of Tony Ray-Jones (his “A Day Off”, 1974). Ray-Jones is known to have scoured London for the then uncollected photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone, one example of the piecemeal but growing awareness of the work of earlier British photographers. Ray-Jones’s extensive legacy in turning the mundane into the surreal can be seen in the 1990s work of contemporary photographers of everyday life and leisure, such as Homer Sykes, Tom Wood, Richard Billingham and Martin Parr. The 1960s: fashion and royalty The tradition of working-class and political photography runs in tandem with photography of the upper classes and British royalty, and the photography of the dandy culture of high fashion. Cecil Beaton was a fashion photographer from 1928 for “Vogue“, and later became the official photographer to the Royal Family. Likewise, Lord Snowdon, and Lord Lichfield continued the association of the British Royal family with photography, an association that had first begun when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert patronised the art photographers of their day, and was continued through the establishment of the Royal Photographic Society and the extensive photographic collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. … Continue reading
Cafe Royal Books pub: my Stonehenge Solstice Zine
Travellers : Picture on my main website
I started taking pictures, at the end of the 70’s. I wanted to communicate something of what it was like to be a young rootless “Traveller”. Because I was one. Many looked at the various examples provided by gypsies here … Continue reading
Capturing the Anthropocene: Changing Depictions of the Climate Crisis
Magnum photographers discuss alternative approaches to communicating climate change In this study of new photographic approaches to issues of climate change, Magnum photographers Sim Chi Yin, Cristina de Middel and Jonas Bendiksen speak to writer Georgina Collins about their practice. Alongside this, Toby Smith from … Continue reading
Nottinghamshire Police : How we work with the media
Incidents How do we deal with photographers at incidents? The presence of a photographer or reporter at an incident doesn’t constitute any unlawful obstruction or interference and, where possible, our officers and staff should actively help you to do your … Continue reading
10 Facts Every Street Photographer MUST KNOW
If you take photographs or film in public, you need to be aware of these essential facts. There is no general law that prohibits #photography/videography in public, but there are some essential caveats to be aware of. From photography in … Continue reading
Can You Take Photographs In Public? Can You Film In Public? & s43 Terrorism Act 2000 Searches
In this video, I discuss whether you can take photographs or film in public. This is a brief explainer video of your rights when taking photographs or filming something (or someone) in public. There is no specific law that prevents … Continue reading
The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman — photography him in the act
Astonishing cartoon for 1884. “The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman — photography him in the act.” 1884! The image appeared as part of a cartoon feature in the 31 December 1884 issue of … Continue reading