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Recent Posts
- Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival – photo essay 6 April 2026
- Sherwood Timeshift Short 5 April 2026
- Nottingham in 2.35:1 4 April 2026
- Peregrine Falcons : 4th Egg now 4 April 2026
- Truth for victims and families as Orgreave Inquiry launches 3 April 2026
- Morris Dancing, Set 2 Nottingham Market Sq 2 April 2026
- Morris Dancing, Set 1 Nottingham Market Sq 2 April 2026
- NUJ members join historic Together Alliance march 1 April 2026
- Timelapse, passing clouds and Moon 1 April 2026
- BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism 1 April 2026
- Tash in Wide-Angle 31 March 2026
- Insta360 AcePro2 with Xplorer Grip Pro 31 March 2026
- Fun Chorus : Desmond & Molly. 30 March 2026
- Attention! 29 March 2026
- Action & Events : Adobe Gallery 29 March 2026
- Wide Angle Tash at home 28 March 2026
- Photography Reading 27 March 2026
- A bit of a sit down in Nero 26 March 2026
- Winchester Court, Woodthorpe Park …. a bit of a panorama 25 March 2026
- Nottingham Trent University in B&W : A Project 24 March 2026
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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Doing it for Yourself, DJ magazine. December 1992
Doing It for Yourself DJ Magazine 10-31 December 1992 From their inaugural party (Harry’s birthday) just over three years ago DIY havegrown from a core of three or four into an extended posse that numbers over 100. The 30 or … Continue reading
Hothead ep DiY, Nottingham. Record cover photography
The tune ….
Photography MA Presentation at Nottingham Trent University 2014
“IT’S NEVER TOO FAR”: THE INSIDE STORY OF CASTLEMORTON — HISTORY’S MOST INFAMOUS RAVE
Read an excerpt from DiY founder Harry Harrison’s new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The story of DiY Soundsystem Never has there been a more turbulent time in UK politics than in the 1980s. Through a new era of young ravers … 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
How I Created This Dramatic Landscape Photo in Lightroom & Photoshop – From start to Finish
In this video, I go through my whole process for editing a landscape image from start to finish in Lightroom and Photoshop. I begin with merging multiple shots in Lightroom, doing some basic editing, before using Photoshop to remove some … Continue reading
Photographing Anonymous, Nottingham
Anonymous Nottingham gather
Anonymous Nottingham gather in the Market Square, Nottingham. Then, treking off to visit the usual suspects in tax evasion and worker exploitation. Barclays, NatWest, Burton/perkins, Boots, Starbucks, RBS, HSBC, Santandar, BHS, etc … oh and of course Vodafone, twice {again!!!}. … Continue reading
Quote: First they came for …. then they came for me
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist. Then they … Continue reading
A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
Simon Fairlie describes how the progressive enclosure of commons over several centuries has deprived most of the British people of access to agricultural land. The historical process bears little relationship to the “Tragedy of the Commons”, the theory which ideologues … Continue reading
New zines and posters in my Shop
Have recently added a few more zine titles to my shop and some A2 ‘arty posters’. Please check ’em out. https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/shop
‘Sky Mirror’ at the Nottingham Playhouse
Unveiled outside Nottingham Playhouse in 2001, the award-winning Sky Mirror is a renowned piece of our city’s cultural architecture that has provided the backdrop to many memories over the years. The sculpture was voted Nottingham’s favourite landmark in a landslide … Continue reading
Drive 2 Survive Protest, London
Drive 2 Survive rally to protest anti-Traveller law ‘makes history’ The Drive 2 Survive rally kicked off with an explosive start in Parliament Square last week as campaigners warned of a ‘summer of discontent’ against the new racist police bill which will “wipe out” … Continue reading
