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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.
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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.”
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Blunkett on the telly announcing the new crime measures – what does it all mean for US
I knew about the anti-social behaviour orders etc and the main ideas of the bill, being to do with estates yobs and intimidations etc. But, didn’t have the idea, that the CJA and Public Order acts were being strengthen also. … Continue reading
The battle of the Beanfield – Revisited!
Many readers of these pages, will know well, of the violence metered out to my tribe, by the authorites, in the past, and still …… Specifically, actions related to event at and around Stonehenge. I wrote an account of the … Continue reading
UHC-collective, Manchester
http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk Their latest show: 10th October until 18th October 2003 Don’t Cross the Line is an artist-led project consisting of three interventions/installations in Manchester city centre. These will explore the broad theme of cultural imperialism, focussing specifically on notions of … Continue reading
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act .. .. .. .. AND NOW, PART 2
Hansard entry: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds03/text/31007-33.htm Oh no!!!! Those that understand the progress of the Law, against us, will know of the Public Order Act 1986, that first made it as difficult as it for festivals and travellers to gather. Then, in 1994, … Continue reading
Camara Phones on the Archers
Have been a listener to the Archers on BBC Radio4 for xxxxxx years. Can’t help it, think it’s great. !! I learn loads. It’s not just about, when you ‘do’ your sheep etc, but is a bit of a ‘barometer’ … Continue reading
UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32783.html A pair of British companies today teamed up to market a technology that allows camera phones or digital cameras to be disabled in a localised environment. Iceberg Systems, a developer of Internet and mobile systems, claims its Safe Haven … Continue reading
Camera jamming system on test
A British firm is beta-testing new technology that jams the use of digital cameras in designated ‘wireless privacy zones’. The transmitter technology, developed by Iceberg Systems, is being promoted as a sophisticated alternative to the banning of digital cameras and … Continue reading
Were weapons planted on this protester?
An anti-capitalist Briton awaiting trial says Greek police planted Molotov cocktails and other weapons on him. Perhaps uniquely, there is video footage of the arrest which supports his case. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3136382.stm Yet another solid example of the use of video and … Continue reading
Defence Systems and Equipment international arms fair – update
Following the protests against the Defence Systems and Equipment international arms fair that took place in East London 147 people have been arrested. A number have been released without charge and others cautioned, but many face prosecution for offences including … Continue reading
Boundaries-to Bridges-Tour 2003/2004
Almeria/Spain (October 2003) – St. Louis/Senegal (March 2004) http://www.memenet.de/tour_eng.html Boundaries-to Bridges-Tour 2003/2004 The Caravan is aiming for co-operations with different groups from all countries that it will be moving through. The Caravan will function as a sound system, a circus, … Continue reading
The Fairground Association of Great Britain
http://www.fagb.co.uk The Fairground Association of Great Britain was founded in 1978, and is now the UK’s leading club for fairground enthusiasts, with members as far a field as Australia and North America. The main objectives of the Association are to … Continue reading
Nottingham 709th Goose Fair
Forest Recreation Ground, Nottingham 709th .. .. .. Been going a while eh …… I visited the fair several times [ well, it’s at the bottom of my street ] from the openeing by the Lord Mayor and Sheriff of … Continue reading
Naked rambler back behind bars
Kirsty Scott Saturday October 4, 2003 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1055660,00.html The naked rambler was last night back behind bars only hours after being freed from a month in a Scottish prison. Stephen Gough, 44, was arrested and charged with committing another … Continue reading
Police ‘misuse’ anti-terror laws: DSEi 2003 LEGAL UPDATE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3158958.stm “Civil rights campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the police and Home Secretary David Blunkett over the alleged misuse of anti-terror laws. Pressure group Liberty is backing a protester and a freelance journalist who were stopped and searched … Continue reading
Sherwood Protest Camp at Mansfield Woodhouse
I visited a ‘Protest Camp’ at Mansfield Woodhouse at the edge of Sherwood Forest this afternoon. Developers have an intention to fell a 300 year old beech tree and surrounding woodland, because it’s ‘in the way’ of proposed development. A … Continue reading
Junk Mail Revenge
If like me, you wake up every morning and check to see what delights the postman has left, and are then heartbroken to discover that all you got was a shitty Capital One offer, something from Egg and some Nectar … Continue reading
Gin and Cannabis on Radio4
Prof Laurie Taylor, Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 Laurie Taylor dives into an intoxicating past when he meets two historians who’ve been delving into the whys and wherefores of early anti-drug policies. Jessica Warner has written about the moral panic … Continue reading
Police searched at DSEI? Liberty needs your help, ASAP
Liberty’s high court legal challenge of police searches at DSEI will take place on 2 October, 2003. Were you searched in London by police using Section 44 powers (Anti-terror search powers) during/before the week of September 6th-12 “DSEI week”? Liberty … Continue reading
ID cards must be compulsory, says Blunkett
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1046964,00.html Home secretary presses cabinet sceptics to agree to include paving legislation for introduction of national scheme in Queen’s speech Alan Travis Home affairs editor The Guardian. Monday September 22, 2003 The home secretary, David Blunkett, said yesterday that he … Continue reading


