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- Facebook Pix : Celebrating the Syrian Revolution in Nottingham 14 December 2024
- Speech by Shuguftah Quddoos, the EX- Sheriff of Nottingham on the cuts 4 December 2024
- Photography : The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman 30 November 2024
- ‘If I cannot speak up without being sanctioned, I cannot remain’: Former Sheriff of Nottingham quits Labour Party 29 November 2024
- The Guardian view on the ‘spy cops’ inquiry: police lies are finally being exposed 28 November 2024
- Expert Blog: The future of digital arts education 28 November 2024
- How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’ 26 November 2024
- Left Lion : Smokescreen DiY Sound Systems 19 November 2024
- House and proud: a retrospective of Smokescreen Soundsystem 19 November 2024
- Landing at Birmingham from Malaga 7 November 2024
- Take off from Malaga for Birmingham 7 November 2024
- On the Road from Granada to Malaga 6 November 2024
- Alhambra, Granada. Spain 4 November 2024
- 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
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
Monthly Archives: August 2002
George Melley on Religion: Taoism shit happens. Bhuddism the shit that happens to us is good. Hinduism the shit that happens to us has happened before. Zen what is the sound of shit happening. Catholic the shit that happens to … Continue reading
Random Artists A new squatted community art space will be opening at 282 Richmond Road in Hackney, London on the 24th August, running for a week with workshops on sculpture/metalwork, woodwork/speaker cabinet building, web design, and desk top publishing, plus … Continue reading
‘The Daily Summit’ http://www.dailysummit.net This a Weblog, and bacause of the immediacy if it all, is frequently updated. There is also an RSS ‘feed’ so news of developments, can be ‘piped’ through, directly. The Daily Summit is the first port … Continue reading
Wow, That all takes me back:-) I was living in a bus in 1990,and before that had done abit of travelling about for the odd weekend etc.I actually hated the bus,well,the company I should say.My then partner was just so … Continue reading
They didn’t show up! UKCIA recieved a press release from the Portsmouth Smokey Bears before the 2002 picnc, informing the media – and hence the police, that the law against cannabis would be openly challenged. The police annouced that they … Continue reading
Wales and Party Stuff Saturday night. Got some party info from one of the Desert Storm posse and after mucking around for a bit, got on the road. Police did their best to get really on top and bug out … Continue reading
Ribblehead I am an old traveller in the sense!! That I was on the road since i was 3 but am now 19 in a flat. My parents Chris and Zoe did lots of stuff and i know you’ve met … Continue reading
Wow, That all takes me back:-) I was living in a bus in 1990,and before that had done abit of travelling about for the odd weekend etc.I actually hated the bus,well,the company I should say.My then partner was just so … Continue reading
Release Thanks for the emails and the phone chat. It’s left me fairly depressed how much great work was done and how little goes on now. I’m getting old and maudlin before my time! I’ve looked at the photos again … Continue reading
Gosh! Release hasn’t got any money. That is news! Just had yet another e-mail asking for free work. This orgaisation, I’ve associated with since the mid-1970’s though. Release! Acting Director, taken over from Mike Goodman. I don’t think we have … Continue reading
Mike Slocobme on the Urban75 site Congratulations!! i said: “Your on the ?intelligence site, for police matter set up at: http://www.policestop.org.uk. I’d sent a copy to SchNews. ‘cos they got a mention, also. Anyway, SchNews just written back to me, … Continue reading
Blow-Up (1966) Blow-Up (1966) is director Michelangelo Antonioni’s view of the world of mod fashion, and an engaging, provocative murder mystery that examines the existential nature of reality through photography. Antonioni’s first film in English, it quickly became one of … Continue reading
Photography on the telly tonight Two items on BBC2 tonight. 8.00pm Fame Fashion and Photography. – the real ‘Blow Up’ Was never into ‘fashion photography’. well have all sorts of things about fashion, i suppose. But guys like David Bailey … Continue reading
B visits B came round, this afternoon. Various adventures with Desert Storm, [sound-system]. been commuting back and fro, between, Nottingham and Rimini, Italy. Know the cahp, since we lived in Wales. Nice to see him, keeeping the traditions going. More … Continue reading
The ‘standard practise’ of police filming They’ve used a surveillance montage of mine, on the Bristol Indymedia front page. It introduces this item. Seems to be ‘getting about’ this one. The ‘standard practise’ of police filming: Shot by both sides … Continue reading
Bristol Party Video Evidence on Indymedia Mathew Williams – Truthseekers footage http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/truthseeks.rm Its from http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/139848.php http://bristol.indymedia.org/ Video of the police violence at Bristol free party If anyone needs copies of the video of the police violence, which now includes an … Continue reading
Just in case there are any passing readers, thought I would announce that it’s my birthday today! And another year! Siri phoned me earlier, Sam hasn’t, of course. I thought I’d cook sommat nice tonight, and have started on some … Continue reading
Unban75 Chat Room Here is the Urban75 Chat Room. Alway seems quite well attended. But quite a lot of bollox talked! http://www.urban75.com/chat.html Have organised my own, from cam pages in a pop-up box http://www6.camarades.com/jirc/index.html?room=970675854&nick=tash
New Front end! Gosh, have just worked out what a ‘text box’ can do on a webpage. Have also included ‘Layers’ for the first time. Wowah! Got to work out now, how to keep them stationary, rather than scoll. Because … Continue reading
suitable accommodation for all In Utopia, Thomas Moore himself describes a dystopian kingdom, where “the nobles and gentlemen” are “even tearing down houses and demolishing whole towns” in search of greater incomes. Krishan Kumar states that, “Architecture has always been … Continue reading