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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
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Licensing Bill 2003 You’ll all know of the changes in law, that have generally fucked up, our gatherings outside, Public order act CJA etc ……. Then there was the club licensing rules …… drugs etc and the ‘Barry Legg’ Act … Continue reading
Barclays Bank ‘advice’ re: Photographers Barclays include the following statement on their finance and business website, re: Commissioning Photography! “Professional photographers are expensive so consider using a good amateur. There is often little difference in the quality of the final … Continue reading
Channel Five children’s documentary series about young Gypsy/Travellers I have just been looking at your website and I was wondering if you would be able to help with a search that I am doing for a television series. I am … Continue reading
Video Activism by GIBBY ZOBEL, Big Issue news@bigissue.com They came, they filmed, they got arrested. but did the video activists change the way news is reported? The eviction of anti-road protesters from Claremont Road in East London took four days, … Continue reading
Will the television be revolutionised? Local Terrestrial TV comes to the UK by Dave Greenhalgh contact i-contact@gifford.co.uk On February 11th, the i-Contact Video Network held a public meeting at Easton Community Centre to discuss Bristol’s new local TV channel. By … Continue reading
Nicked if you do, nicked if you don’t… By Mike Holderness mike.holderness@mcr1.poptel.org.uk In the Thames Valley, it seems that journalists covering demos may get arrested on the grounds that they are protesters in disguise. In Birmingham, the only way that … Continue reading
Two in a bar to none in a bar – the Licensing Bill You’ll all know of the changes in law, that have generally fucked up, our gatherings outside, Public order act CJA etc . Then there was the club … Continue reading
Two in a bar to none in a bar – the Licensing Bill You’ll all know of the changes in law, that have generally fucked up, our gatherings outside, Public order act CJA etc . Then there was the club … Continue reading
WillyX get arrested :: ‘George and Tim Shake hands: – Stonehenge issues WillyX gets arrested, Again 🙂 and .. .. .. thought you might enjoy this snap of George Firsoff and Tim Ingle-Abbott from the Stonehenge Peace Campaign . Nice … Continue reading
A Technical Foundation To Building A Sound System To most people, sound systems seem very simple – some speakers and some amplifiers, and you’re all set. In addition to this frequent simplistic perception, many people honestly can’t tell the difference … Continue reading
Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going ……. Advice from Monty Python, on life Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That’s … Continue reading
Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going ……. Advice from Monty Python, on life Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That’s … Continue reading
‘A Right to Know’ Michael Crick introduced a program on BBC Radio4 on the amount of information, held on us, and , our rights in getting to see it. Here is an MP3. I think this is a splendid ‘overview’ … Continue reading
The Anarchist Travelling Circus http://www.g8circus.org.uk The Anarchist Travelling Circus is UK-wide series of actions, projects and events, and a mobilisation against the latest knees up of the powermongers of world misery – the G8 Summit taking place in Evian (Lake … Continue reading
Tash’s ‘Free’ Desktops, available for download Have prepared a number of ‘desktop designs’ and have made them available for download. Saved as 1024×768 .BMP files at 2.3Mb. Here are some samples. Please click line below for the full selection http://tash.dns2go.com/FTP/Desktop1024x768 … Continue reading
Economic League Economic League, an organisation which collects data for private and government subscribers. Much of the information they collect results in the blacklisting of totally innocent workers, who have been unable to obtain or maintain jobs because of the … Continue reading


