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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.
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 2003
Nottingham Gay Pride In the Arboretum Park
I’ve put up a gallery of pictures from the day on my PhotoBlog at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=5440 past gay event piccys at: http://tash.gn.apc.org/gayintro1.htm were I’ve included piccys from past manchester, leicester, and nottingham dos. and more sets at: http://tash.dns2go.com/projects_gallery/Gay_Colour/index.htm http://tash.dns2go.com/projects_gallery/Gay_BW/index.htm
Nottingham Gay Pride do
http://www.nottinghampride.com is official website of Nottingham Pride 2003, This is the one-stop place to find out everything thats going on from pre-pride to post-pride! This is the *ONLY* place on the web with up to the minute details of everything … Continue reading
Manchester Gay Pride
Manchester Gay Pride today. Check out photos from camphone, posted live from my P800 mobile phone. http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=4762 A Gay day out in Manchester. As in past years, I covered the event in black and white, and colour slide. This year, … Continue reading
Snowdonia post thursday and friday
http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=4690 Two nights in a tent at Garth Farm, Capel Currig. (Sheet 115 SH702570). Have now checked into Bryn Dinas Bunk House for the next couple of nights. (sheet 115 SH 622502). Bryn Dinas is situated in the village of … Continue reading
South slops of Snowdon.
South slops of Snowdon. Headed SW from the Pass Of Lanberis. Now on mountain, opposite to the one i went up yesterday. Now overlooking Glyder Fawr. Sheet 115 SH625563 am now about height 800m http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=4447 Map
Glyder Fawr
Gosh, 5 hours to get up here by the long route round, looking for picture angles. Now on summit of Glyder Fawr sheet 115 SH6442580, weather uncertain 999 metres. Bloody high! http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=4385 Map
Capel Currig
Now arrived at the foot of Snowdon range. Camping at Garth Farm. 3 miles west of Capel Curig. (Sheet115 SH702570) Bit tired after drive. Spliff and bed, me thinks. More pictures just gone from my phone to FOTOpages http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=4285 Map
Snowdonia, or bust
Good weather predicted for this week. So, travelling out today, for a few days in the hills. Walking and taking photographs. Will post to some piccys from my phone to my CamBlog at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com Strangely enough, there is a webcam … Continue reading
Friday Night and Bolloxed in Nottingham
Hard Rock, The Edge, Q Bar, on to the Gay Bars The Central, @d2. Lads night out, Thought I’d try and use my P800, and share the evenin with ya. Soooooooo bolloxed on Bacardi Rum {again} http://www.fotopages.com/cgi-bin/view_log.pl?entry=4090 Will be maintaining … Continue reading
Good luck to Steve on his ‘Naked Walk’
The ‘Naked Walk’, Steve Gough is doing, is described on his website, as a frequently updated message boad. Steve Gough Naked Walk: Dialogue http://www.nakedwalk.alivewww.co.uk/disc20_frm.htm I thought I would bang in an entry, My post on ‘Naked Rambling on Cubar Edge … Continue reading
Naked Rambling on Cubar Edge, Derbyshire Peak District
Photos on my PhotoBlog at: http://www.fotopages.com/cgi-bin/view_log.pl?entry=3990 Dramatic outcrops of rock, defining the edge of the high ground there. Oh, I engaged in a little naked rambling there,!! It was such a very nice day. I could thus work on my … Continue reading
Day out at Milldale, Peak District, Derbyshire
http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=3869 Day out at Milldale, Peak District, Derbyshire, UK So much computing of late, so, with the good weather, thought I’d get some altitude, out in the hills, and wander about a bit! I thought the ducks were a bit … Continue reading
USA laws planning a rave crackdown! (oh no, whats new?)
Well dear reader, many of you will know about the Criminal Justices Act 1994 and it’s effects on my communities. Because many english travellers and party-persons, got pushout of this country, and went to Europe. French Government then enacted their … Continue reading
Nottingham Caribbean Carnival :: Pictures
Have just added a photoset, of my work from the Nottingham Caribbean Carnival, over the weekend. Do take a look. Nottingham Caribbean Carnival :: Day 1 http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=3593 Nottingham Caribbean Carnival :: Day 2 http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=3659 More ‘immediate’ photo-additions, can be viewed … Continue reading
Nottingham Caribbean Carnival
The Nottingham Caribbean Carnival this weekend is one of the largest outdoor events in the East Midlands. The carnival is a celebration of African/Caribbean cultural heritage as well as celebrating the cultural diversity of Nottingham City life. It brings you … Continue reading
Smart mob storms London
Reclaim the Street, Circle Line Parties, now ‘Smart Mob’. Wicked!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3134559.stm In London, they gathered at a sofa store :: The flash mob phenomenon has hit London. Since June spontaneous crowds summoned up via the internet have been assembling in … Continue reading
Activist film-makers share a tradition with 21st-century bloggers and camcorder-carrying marchers – A Guardian piece covering a little bit of alt media history
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,1012593,00.html Reel politik Activist film-makers share a tradition with 21st-century bloggers and camcorder-carrying marchers. Maureen Paton on a tribute to their moving images Wednesday 6 August, 2003 Society Guardian Rewind to the beginning of the second world war, when teenager … Continue reading


