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- Saturday Afternoon Panoramas 9 May 2026
- How DiY Sound System blazed a trail for the ’90s free party movement 9 May 2026
- ’90s rave documentary, Free Party: A Folk History, set for streaming release – DJ mag 9 May 2026
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- Free Party- A Folk History + Q&A at Bonington Theatre, Gedling, Nottingham 8 May 2026
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- Berlin Wall Gallery 6 May 2026
- Berlin Eastside Art Gallery 6 May 2026
- Free Party- A Folk History + Q&A at Bonington Theatre 4 May 2026
- A message from NUJ on World Press Freedom Day 2026 3 May 2026
- Today is World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2026
- A Musical Interlude at the MayDay Rally, Speakers Corner, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- Nadia Whittome MP speech disrupted by the RCP at MayDay, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- Chris T, Nottingham NUJ speech on the jeopardy faced by journalists worldwide 3 May 2026
- MayDay Rally at Speakers Corner, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- This World Press Freedom Day, American journalists are under attack 2 May 2026
- Water feature in Sheffield, slow motion 30 April 2026
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- Some medical MRI photography, of my spine 27 April 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 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
Author Archives: admin
More anti-Traveller stress
This is from this week SchNews. I think this a bloody sickening, but fear, and expect, there to be much more like it. Bastards!!! Travel Sickness People being kicked off land which they own and then having their dwellings burned … Continue reading
Hutton Inquiry: Final Report
the direct link, for those interested is: http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/report/index.htm
BBC buys up ‘Hutton inquiry’ Google links
Owen Gibson Media Guardian Monday January 26, 2004 http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,7521,1130050,00.html Just 48 hours before Lord Hutton delivers his verdict on the controversy surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the BBC has begun an advertising experiment that involves buying up all … Continue reading
Nine Ladies Possession Court Order Obtained
Nine Ladies Protest Camp, Derbyshire, Possession Court Order Obtained Thursday 22/01/2004. PAPERS SERVED THIS MORNING (Friday) eviction – imminent! Background: If Quarrying goes ahead, a 100m deep scar will blight a beautiful, and well loved landscape. The protest camp has … Continue reading
Photography of Vehicle Artwork
It has taken weeks ….. But since the new year, have been going back through my colour work and have tried to make a ‘best edit’ of ‘vehicles’ and ‘vehicle artwork’ I am half way through making a DVD disc … Continue reading
Political jargon : An explaination
Political jargon is difficult to understand most of the time, so when I came across this explanation I thought I should pass it on…. FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have … Continue reading
Man shot in street
Bloody heck! This is getting sooooo Dodge City in these parts. Been happening years in Nottingham, of course, just like any city in the world. But, that don’t stop us getting scared. This was just a few yards down the … Continue reading
Lambeth Council Charge Cannabis Festival Licencee
2pm Wednesday 21st January. Court 2. Tower Bridge Magistrates Court, 211 Tooley St, London. – . Lambeth Council have summonsed Shane Collins, Cannabis Carnival Licencee and Green Party London Assembly candidate, to Tower Bridge Magistrates Court, 211 Tooley Street, at … Continue reading
Naked rambler completes his trek
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3420685.stm Mr Gough has had a long journey to the far north. The man dubbed the naked rambler has finally completed his marathon trek from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Stephen Gough, 44, from Hampshire, finished his walk after seven … Continue reading
Traveller camp drives away the bailiffs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1121701,00.html Traveller camp drives away the bailiffs Steven Morris Tuesday January 13, 2004 The Guardian The bailiffs had arrived shortly after first light with orders to evict the group of travellers from land they had been living on for the … Continue reading
Reclassification of cannabis
At bloody last! this is the first real progress on the subject, in thirty years…. no enough of course, because they still say it is wrong, and against the law. I say the law is wrong, and criminalizes otherwise, law … Continue reading
Am back again!
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND STUFF…… Well dear readers, sorry for not having posted much of late here. Haven’t had a great deal to say! Then, been away for a bit, photographing mountains, winter sun and snow etc …. Then the … Continue reading
Civil Contingencies Bill: measures to deal with terrorist attacks
This is what it is all about. Read the paper, and be very frightened! http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/reports/ccbill/pdf/compaper.pdf Sweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror. The Independent, 23 November 2003 By Andy McSmith, Political Editor http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=3D466424 Sweeping measures to deal with terrorist … Continue reading
I DON’T do weddings
A report from the front !!!! I don’t do ‘social photography’ either, does the following tail, give any idea why??? đ -) Let me tell you about my last experience, for an Art Ed friend, who wanted reportage-style for her … Continue reading
FreeB.E.A.G.L.E.S legal resource centre for UK political activists
http://www.freebeagles.org Have discovered this resource to share with you: They say- “Welcome to freeB.E.A.G.L.E.S. legal resource centre for UK political activists Anyone who tries to bring about change for the better is going to come into contact with the law. … Continue reading
‘No-Bush’ demo in Nottingham in Market Square
‘No-Bush’ demo in Nottingham in Market Square. Starting with a public trial of this bloke for crimes at 12:00 noon and at 5pm, a sit-down and march around town. A trial of President GW. Bush, was held in the Market … Continue reading
A Right to Report?
The Freelance is the bulletin of London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists. These are some of the articles the newsletter has run about difficulties faced by reporters on demonstrations, and what can be done about them. They … Continue reading
Stop Bush
&&& This site is to keep to up with the mans’ itinerary … Help us track George W. Bush across London! &&& the ‘main’ UK National Demonstration Thursday 20th November http://www.stopwar.org.uk Assemble 2pm at Malet Street, Central London (nearest tubes: … Continue reading
Only doing our job… ? Advice for photographers : Public order and Bushs visit
“Public order situations” can be difficult. Especially if you’re a photographer, and the only place you can do it from is in the thick of it: often sandwiched between police officers, who just want everyone to go away (or stay … Continue reading
Naked protest in Parliament Square
http://www.barewitness.org/images/nogmambush/index.html 16th November 2003, London: Protest group barewitness.org pulled off its most daring demonstration so far, when a group of it’s members stripped naked in Parliament Square and spelt out a stark message for Tony Blair and George Bush on … Continue reading


