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- Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham
- Gay Pride, Nottingham : A Slideshow
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Wow, look at Gideon Falter's facial expression at the end when he's been caught out 👀 #C4News
"Today Channel 4 News has seen new exchanges with different officers in different locations"
Police officer, "I've been told you keep running into the protestors"
Gideon Falter,In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding
This case should never have been brought. It was a vindictive prosecution by the Solicitor General, a government minister. The judge has seen sense.
📣 BREAKING from the High Court:
Judge Justice Saini has refused permission for the Solicitor General to pursue retired social worker Trudi Warner for Contempt of Court over holding a placard outside court telling jurors they have a right to acquit on their conscience 🪧Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it a photographer processed a roll of film using cannabis flower.
A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it -
The largest digital camera ever made – a 6,600-pound, 3,200-megapixel monster – is finally complete.
We've seen it in person and it's incredible! Come along with us to learn about the sensor, lens, and why it even exists.
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on -
Researchers have discovered that some populations of monkeys have entered their Stone Age.
They have started using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish, making them a further type of primates to do so after us.
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Recent Posts
- The Mass Trespass : Kinder Scout 24 April 2024
- The Man in the White Suit 23 April 2024
- CIVIC : my website gallery 23 April 2024
- A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it 21 April 2024
- ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on 20 April 2024
- MILITARY : my website gallery 19 April 2024
- Peak District. 2 Hours of Beautiful Landscape Photography 17 April 2024
- POLICING : my website gallery 17 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Nottingham Puppet Festival 15 April 2024
- ARTS : my website gallery 15 April 2024
- Interview with Andy Earl, ex NTU 14 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Sunday afternoon at the Sumac 40 years events 14 April 2024
- Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham 14 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Sumac 40 Years gig : Friday Gay Night 13 April 2024
- PRIDE : my website gallery 13 April 2024
- Glastonbury Festivals Slideshow 11 April 2024
- GREEN FESTIVAL : PRESS RELEASE 11 April 2024
- 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
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: police
Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins
Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Music, Environmental Protest, Reclaim the Street, Unions, Civil Disobedience, Policemen and …….. Lecture Slideshow 2 60mins. 400 pics / 9 sec change
College of Policing Guidance on Media Relations
Engagement and communication Media relations 3.10 Media briefings Reporting from a scene Reporting or filming from the scene of an incident is part of the media’s role and they should not be prevented from doing so from a public place. … Continue reading
NUJ alarmed at increase in incidents with the police and photographers
The union has commented after charges were dropped against a photographer arrested by South Wales Police one day before the trial was due to begin. Natasha Hirst, NUJ president, said: “There has been an alarming number of incidents of police … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Stoney Cross, Hampshire. June 1986
https://tinyurl.com/22z92syc Further trouble and the Public Order Act 1986 Things have never been the same again since the Beanfield. Throughout the rest of the year, whether in small groups or at events, travellers were continually harassed. In May and June … Continue reading
Front cover of Festival Eye 1987
…. and then to select this one …. and thus used here
Alan Lodge, Black & White Surveillance. Salon de Normandy by The Community
Alan Lodge, Black & White SurveillanceSalon de Normandy by The CommunityRoom 412, Normandy Hôtel, 7 Rue de l’Échelle, 75001 Paris, FranceOctober 22nd – 25th, 2020. Black & White Surveillance is a presentation of photography and archive materials surveying Alan Lodge’s extensive … Continue reading
‘Photoshoot’ for the front cover of Festival Eye 1986
Annoying my son to get him to pose, with aggression 🙂 This issue of Festival Eye was the first after the police action at the event that became known as the ‘Battle of the Beanfield‘ when 1600 police officers attacked … Continue reading
NUJ wins settlement for photographers at Black Lives Matter protest
The union won an apology and out-of-court settlements for two photographers and a video journalist who were detained while covering a Black Lives Matter solidarity protest for Eric Garner at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, London, on December 10, … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Criminal Justice Bill Protest Pictures
Another submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/28qqtf5r
Facebook Pix : Castlemorton, DiY, FreeParty and Clubs
First submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/2ysdm7xy
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
Beanfield : Police exposed film
This is the story of the police action at the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’. The attack on ‘The Convoy’ on the way to the Stonehenge Free Festival on the 1st June 1985. Below is the picture of the exposed film, … Continue reading
Hatred of Dissent: Reviewing Four Decades of Repressive Tory Laws on the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield – Andy Worthington
38 years ago, on June 1, 1985, a convoy of vehicles carrying what the photographer Alan Lodge described as “a small, mild mannered bunch of people” — around 550 men, women and children, generally described at the time as New … Continue reading
Public Order Act 2023 : Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc
17 Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc (1)A constable may not exercise a police power for the sole purpose of preventing a person from observing or reporting on a protest.(2)A constable may not exercise a police power … Continue reading
NUJ DM 2023: relations with the police
Nigel Dickinson of the Photographers’ Council said there was a continued lack of understanding by some police forces and their officers of the rights of journalists and photographers. Delegates commended the excellent work conducted by the union to build relationships … Continue reading
Protection for journalists added into anti-protest Public Order Bill
Campaigners had warned the Public Order Bill could make arrests of journalists “commonplace”. By Charlotte Tobitt A specific protection for journalists was added to the Government’s anti-protest Public Order Bill by peers on Tuesday. Peers voted to add a new clause stating that … Continue reading
PCs to get urgent journalist awareness training after M25 arrests
by David Sharman Published 24 Nov 2022 Police officers are to be given journalist awareness training as a matter of urgency following the M25 arrests controversy. Hertfordshire Constabulary has confirmed it will undertake a review to ensure that any Public Order Public … Continue reading
Does the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?
BBC The Media ShowDoes the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?How should journalists cover climate protests? The climate conference Cop27 ends this week. But you might have seen more about the activists who threw oil on a Gustav Klimt painting in … Continue reading