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Recent Posts
- Nottingham Market Square, in a wider angle 10 April 2026
- The Mask of Anarchy 10 April 2026
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- One Minute Coffee at Nero 9 April 2026
- Portraits BW 9 April 2026
- Well Jeeves, nice hat! 8 April 2026
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- Woodthorpe Park in Wider-Angle, Slideshow 7 April 2026
- Woodthorpe Park in Wider-Angle 7 April 2026
- 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
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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Today, finished making the Main Website
OK groovers. Have been updating the galleries on my main website, one gallery at a time over the last 6 week. Today, I say I’ve finished. Please check out at https://alanlodge.co.uk
Updating website development, one gallery at a time. Have just finished a ‘Festivals’ set
Gatherings in the open air with music are as old as anything human beings have ever done. Some of the tensions that result on the use of land probably began between the farmers and the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Age! … Continue reading
Happy ‘farmily’: portraits of people and their animals – in pictures
Happy ‘farmily’: portraits of people and their animals – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/feb/26/happy-farmily-portraits-of-people-and-their-animals-in-pictures Photographer Tasha Hall creates what she calls ‘farmily’ portraits – featuring families and their animals. Hall, from British Columbia in Canada, says she got the idea after wanting … Continue reading
Civil disobedience on grounds of conscience
“Civil disobedience on grounds of conscience is an honourable tradition in this country and those who take part in it may in the end be vindicated by history.” Lord Justice Hoffman (commented during the Twyford Down appeal)
Carnival Colourful ‘Feathers’ Edit 2 Slideshow
Carnival Colourful ‘Feathers’ Edit 1 Slideshow
Shop now open!
Gosh, months of work setting up revised website. Now, have just finished the zines shop. Please check out at: https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/shop
Lewis and I at my MA show
Lewis and I at my MA Photography Show at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham 2014
Memories of a Free Party
The imminent arrival of a ground-breaking documentary – ‘Free Party: A Folk History’ – about the British free party scene of the late 80s/early 90s, has stirred some stark memories and buried feelings within me; for I was part of … Continue reading
Get off this estate
GET OFF THIS ESTATE !!!WHAT FOR? BECAUSE IT’S MINE!WHERE DID YOU GET IT? FROM MY FATHER.WHERE DID HE GET IT? FROM HIS FATHER.AND WHERE DID HE GET IT? HE FOUGHT FOR IT.WELL, I’LL FIGHT YOU FOR IT! New Internationalist
This scepter’d isle
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this … Continue reading
Government seeks to retain lockdown limits on protests
Priti Patel obtains advice on ensuring post-Covid demonstrations do not impact on ‘rights of others to go about their business’https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/28/government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests
A festival should possess
“A festival should possess something which is distinctive and which could not be so well presented elsewhere” E.M. Forster 1948
