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- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 19 October 2024
- Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall. Friday 6th Sept
- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit]
- Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough
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Cattle Plod
Distressing footage of Gypsy and Traveller children being forcibly herded onto a train in Manchester has emerged over the weekend. @Drive2Survive3 is campaigning for Greater Manchester Police to be held accountable.
https://www.drive2survive.org.uk/post/cattle-plodIn the process of moving to Bluesky at: https://bsky.app/profile/tashuk.bsky.social Please follow me there if you want to keep in touch xx
Mullet official non-binary haircut
Contact sheet of portraits of American photographer and journalist Dennis Stock as he holds a camera and looks through the viewfinder, 1951.
(📷 Andreas Feininger/LIFE Picture Collection)
#LIFEMagazine #AndreasFeininger #Photography #DennisStock #Iconic #Archival #1950sCrashed car left for weeks now listed as 'landmark'
So wonderful to be featured in @guardian gallery today as part of the @The_RPS Awards
You can see some work from Through Our Lens and Age of Wonder @BiBresearch as part of my work with young people.
@bradford2025
Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds
We go to a short break, where I went live on instagram to update people over there on what's happening at the #spycops inquiry. Joined by Patrick from @veggiesnottm
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Recent Posts
- The undercover copper who spied on Keir Starmer and seduced the activist the young Leftie lawyer was representing. 25 October 2024
- Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987. 15 October 2024
- The Battle of Cable Street 4 October 2024
- Castlemorton Picture : Guardian online 28 September 2024
- Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today 28 September 2024
- Photography Turns 200 Years Old Today 17 September 2024
- “That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps – two years on 13 September 2024
- BBC Report : Free ‘grassroots’ festival returns to Nottingham 7 September 2024
- Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall 6 September 2024
- Nottingham celebrates opening of Green Heart – a brand-new space for community and nature in heart of the city 4 September 2024
- Nottingham Green Festival Report on NottsTV 3 September 2024
- Tash at the Broadway Gallery Exhibition 29 August 2024
- Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough 28 August 2024
- Broadway Listing : Introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history 23 August 2024
- Broadway Gallery Exhibition : A show introducing the Nottingham Green Festival and its history 22 August 2024
- Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins 22 August 2024
- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit] 21 August 2024
- Report : Under the Rainbow | Documents and Artefacts from Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation 18 August 2024
- Under the Rainbow : Documents and Artefacts From Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation 25 July 2024
- Facebook Pix : Mission to Porto, Portugal 25 July 2024
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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Nottinghamshire Police : How we work with the media
Incidents How do we deal with photographers at incidents? The presence of a photographer or reporter at an incident doesn’t constitute any unlawful obstruction or interference and, where possible, our officers and staff should actively help you to do your … Continue reading
Tash’s Traveller, Festival Rave etc …. Playlist of past broadcast programmes, about it all
History Of The Mutoids
Early History of Mutoids (1983 – 1989)
Joe Rush & Friends – I am a Mutoid – A Glastonbury Hero
Documentary about the work of Joe Rush and The Mutoid Waste Company I Am A Mutoid a documentary by Letmiya SZTALRYD Spreading the gospel of “Mutation”, Joe Rush and his Mutoid Waste Company, an underground collective of wild and subversive … Continue reading
Fight for the right to party
For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed … Continue reading
Homebass
https://www.instagram.com/p/COitKS_lgtM
Privacy International launches new guide to resisting high tech police surveillance
It is possible in the near future that attendance at a protest, or a ‘trespass’, might constitute an offence. It thus follows that the police would look for coroberating evidence to back up such a charge … and obviously surveillance … Continue reading
Freedom to Dance
#freedomtodance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xmMDhFNHZo
Observer : Raves from the grave: lost 90s subculture is back in the spotlight
Raves from the grave: lost 90s subculture is back in the spotlight
Driven by a ‘groundswell’ of young devotees and fortysomething nostalgia, a series of events is celebrating the youth movement James Tapper Sat 26 Jun 2021 18.00 BST It is perhaps one of the most ignored subcultures in modern British history, … Continue reading
‘They thought we were terrorists’: meet Joe Rush, the master of mutoid art and king of Glastonbury
The punky master of outsider art was once a pariah, thrown out of Britain for his anarchist ways. Now, he’s a national treasure. Joe Rush relives 40 years of sticking it to the ‘straight world’ “They thought we were terrorists,” … Continue reading
The Police Bill – new threat or just lazy racism?
Johnny Eastleigh looks at 500 years of attempts by parliament to create outlaws of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller population It’s no news to any of us anymore that Romany people were targets of the Egyptians Act 1530. The Act went … Continue reading
Sound System ‘Hall of Fame’
I get a mention, under ‘AUXILIARY FREE PARTY SERVICES’Cheers chaps xxAlan Lodge (Tash) -Free festival Photographer, free festivals these days are host to freeparty rigs https://alanlodge.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10157865597136716 ENTER The HALL of FAME…………….OVER 30years of FREEPARTY RIGSThe list is no doubt … Continue reading
“We Are People Too”: A blog by Chris McDonagh on growing up as an Irish Traveller
Chris McDonagh is a Campaigns Officer at Friends, Families and Travellers. Chris is an Irish Traveller and grew up travelling around the United Kingdom. Here he writes on his personal experiences of growing up within the Travelling community, both good and … Continue reading
Red Nails
https://www.instagram.com/nhs.blood.drive/ Nails painted RED today. In support of NHS and blood charities. #TalkingRed Guide To Getting Involved / ActivitiesHold a red themed event – cocktails or mocktails/cupcakes or traybakes!Paint it RED – your nails not the town! Why not use … Continue reading
50 Years of the Misuse of Drugs Act
https://transformdrugs.org/timeline
The acid house
A look at Britain as a producer of illegaldrugs, Peter Simonson revisits the 1970s, when a remote Welshmansion was home to the world’s biggest LSD factory. If you were to ask the man on the proverbial Clapham omnibuswhere the majority … Continue reading
Resisting Anti-Trespass
An exploration by two Brighton artists on the potential effects of criminalising trespass in the UK.3rd year student project. University of Brighton
Hot sunny Saturday afternoon in Nottingham
Hot sunny Saturday afternoon in NottinghamMy Samsung S10 recently updated to allow wide-angle shooting in still and video. This is a another messing about to check on width and exposure adjustment from bright to shadows …… 4K Video 3840 x2160