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Recent Posts
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- Zine :: Castlemorton Common. May 1992 8 March 2026
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- Fire Service turnout to Winchester Court flats 8 March 2026
- Iranian Protest, for and against the military situation, Market Square, Nottingham 7 March 2026
- Love Cabbage 7 March 2026
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- DiY 30 Years Gallery 6 March 2026
- ‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it 5 March 2026
- Woodthorpe Meadow Nature Reserve 4 March 2026
- Today at the SpyCop enquiry, on photographers 3 March 2026
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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
Author Archives: admin
Stonehenge photo-zine ‘pageturner’
See other Zine ‘pageturners’ in my Playlist at – https://bit.ly/3joI6Up
First clearance of allotment after winter
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Events’ set
I introduce you to a variety of events. I am interested in festivals, music, community and multi-cultural events. In this set I show something of the Asian Mela, Chinese New Year, Sikh Vaisakhi, St Patricks’ Day, St. Georges’ Day, Mexican … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Education’ set
Assorted aspects of Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham. A while ago, I completed the BA(hons) course in Photography at NTU. [and some other courses besides]. In later life, I returned to NTU to do an MA in … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Unions’ set
Trade Unions held well attended rallies in support of wage claims, better working conditions and pension rights. Pictured here are a couple of the anti-austerity events in London, called by the Trade Union Congress TUC. Protests, demonstrations and pickets. Further, … Continue reading
Sir David Attenborough on Climate and Security – Security Council Open VTC
Briefing by Sir David Attenborough, English broadcaster and natural historian, on the Maintenance of international peace and security: Climate and Security, during the Security Council Open VTC.
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Military’ set
Armed Forces Day aims to show the public, various aspects of military life. Invited to cover the Army Presentation Team on their visit to Nottingham University The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment arrived back home following a six-month operational … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Landscape’ set
A selection from the Derbyshire Peak District, Mid and North Wales, Snowdonia. Following the Enclosure Acts of the 18th and 19th centuries, many of the highest and wildest areas of moorland and mountains – previously common land open to all … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘free party / rave’ set
The free festivals were being attacked by the Tory government with the introduction of the Public Order Act 1986. Section 39 states that ‘if two or more persons have entered land as trespassers and are present there with the common … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Gay Pride’ set
With greater acceptance by society, gay pride events have been gaining in popularity. Shown here, events from Manchester, London, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham. Greater Manchester Police and the Gay Police Association asked for this group picture before they joined the parade. It … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Civic’ set
Nottingham City Council ceremonies with counsellors and assorted officials. Events covered here include the unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue and the dedication of Speakers Corner. Opening of the Goose Fair. A plaque and memorial stone to honour George Africanus … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished the ‘News Coverage’ set
As a photo-journalist, I have covered a wide variety of emergency situations. I have some training in risk assessment at incidents. Major fires, road accidents, building site collapses and public order all present unique challenges. The fire service are also … Continue reading
Photographing Protest
http://www.epuk.org/opinion/photographing-protest Photographing Protest 24 February 2015 – David Hoffman Protest photography is much more than extreme street photography. Coverage of protest forms our social memory, it creates a permanent record for history, spreading the ideas behind the protest and fertilising social … Continue reading
Nottingham’s In Your Face : Projections at Nottingham Castle
Zoe from out Green festival at 5.51min
Confliction!
Laws Progress & Confliction I wanted to add some remarks with a bearing on the previous post here ….. I wrote some notes on the advance of the law back in June. From March, the country had been in ‘lockdown’ … Continue reading
THE UK GOVERNMENT’S USED A ROWDY DRUM ‘N’ BASS TRACK ON A VIDEO TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO RAVE
The Home Office’s Stay Home ad is soundtracked by heavy drum ‘n’ bass The UK government has made a video telling people not to rave, oddly using a rowdy drum ‘n’ bass track to accompany it. The Home Office released the info video today … Continue reading
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Politics’ set
Here, the prime minister leaves Parliament after PM Questions. Some protest. MP’s and local government counsellors make speeches. During election campaigns, I photographed various candidates at the hustings. David Blunket MP, Home Secretary visited Nottingham after the infamous murder of … Continue reading


