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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 âNew Age Travellersâ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in âAlternativesâ, and youthsâ 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 (ârave cultureâ), 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 âWinstonâ from Privacy International, at the 1998 âBig Brotherâ Awards. The citation reads: âAlan 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 activistsâ.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
Quotes & Thoughts
âCowardice 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.â
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 â 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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Experiments and experience
Oh busy busy. being july in Britain, the summer has only really just got underway, and in another three weeks, it will be autumn, I guess đ Perhaps I exaggerate. But I’m an ‘outdoor type’ and so much I have … Continue reading
Glastonbury Press
The Glastonbury festival drew to a close last night, and the broadsheet journalists all seem to have enjoyed themselves – though, ironically, it’s the Telegraph which laments the “embourgeoisiement” of the event, and the Guardian which tends to feel that, … Continue reading
Your Glastonbury reviews and photos
BBC want you free photos, have mentioed their ‘submit a picture’ using your mobile phone cam. Now they want your work from Glastonbury http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3007326.stm BBC News Online wants your pictures and reviews from Glastonbury 2003. If you saw something interesting … Continue reading
Picture passwords for cameraphones
Instead of using a password to unlock your cellphone, a Japanese company called Earth Beat has come up with a way to use a picture instead. You just snap a picture of yourself with your cameraphone, then whenever you want … Continue reading
Recent Self Pix
Just borrowed a 2 Megapix camera from Phil. These are some pictures from it.
Stonehenge 2003 :: Post to Indymedia
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/06/273217.html Have just added my Stonehenge 2003 work, to the Indymedia UK database and a few listings
Lost Vagueness
Have been informed by someone who is sad enough to have taken a laptop + satellite link with them to glastonbury, that there will be a live lost vagueness audio stream available here: http://www.radiovague.com Welcome to RadioVague. Currently beaming at … Continue reading
Stonehenge :: Summer Solstice 2003
A Photo selection from the event. On these pages, have finished a ‘best edit’ selection from my jaunt to Stonehenge, to celebrate the Summer Solstice, but to sadly miss the festival the was / should be there. I arrived on … Continue reading
Stonehenge 2003 colour upload to Guilfin
Am half way through process and scaning of the the weekends work. Have just uploaded a first edit to Guilfin Database, Thought you might wanna ‘sneek preview’ … … … Early ‘live’ set :: http://www.guilfin.net/gallery/?id=pxINET2220 Proper Colour Slide edit :: … Continue reading
Phone at the Solstice
Have been going off a bit about the use of a mobile PhoneCam, in taking pictures for immediate use, out and about. Although the quality is not as good as ‘proper photography’. Not the only one with the same idea … Continue reading
Solstice in the News
Solstice revellers watch sunrise – BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3008828.stm Stonehenge’s summer solstice goes ahead – BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/2996450.stm Thousands witness solstice – Channel4 News http://www.channel4.com/apps26/news/news_story.jsp?storyId=1782592 Road to ruins: Plans are afoot to transform Stonehenge in the next few years. John Ezard … Continue reading
Stonehenge – progress of work and a policeman with shades!!
Hope you’ve enjoyed the more ‘immediate’ pictures here and on Indymedia and Guilfin, that I’ve sent directly from Stonehenge, with my new mobile phone. Will be processing, scanning and then uploading, some of my ‘proper’ photos over the next few … Continue reading
Stonehenge on Indymedia and Guilfin and this blog
I’d successfully taken a number of pictures with my new Sony-Ericsson Mobile phone. Uploaded them to Indymedia, Guilfin and this blog, at various times while the events at Stonehenge were happening. This was a first, playing with some of the … Continue reading
a little later at stonehenge
The sun has just risen over the stone, to great cheers
Stonehenge: Now the gathering started, here are the first few pix.
more later.
Stonehenge – Summer Solstice Approaches
Leaving for Wiltshire shortly, hope to post ‘directly from the field’, on here, Indymedia and Guilfin using my Sony Ericsson P800 ‘CamPhone’. Got to juggle that, as well as taking photos, in my more traditional method, on film. Stonehenge’s summer … Continue reading
Handel
I’m one of the man’s greatest fans. I like so much of the different styles he’s produced. He is famous for imperial ‘the king is great’ type music, but i think some of these are soo sensitive. I put them … Continue reading
Stripey
What a wondeful stripey place to live. All youve got to say, to a visitor, is Iive in the house with black and white stripes, and there you are, found. Individuality, not sure what the council planning committee thinks though … Continue reading


