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@NottmGreenFest
As festival season arrives, here's my top tip – you'll get far more aesthetic, cultural and psychic enrichment if you sack off half the music and do something else instead. The latest Listen Here column on @theQuietus:
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/listen-here/listen-here-why-festivals-are-best-if-you-ignore-half-the-music-do-something-else-instead/Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says
Our friends from @PeoplesHistreh will going on two more guided History walks:
'Agitating the Lawless Rabble'
Sun 28 Jul and Sun 4th Aug 2024
2pm Left Lion (Council House)
https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/two-guided-walks-agitating-the-lawless-rabble/
Ends at the back of @BroadwayCinema, stick around to see our free #LGBTQ+ exhibition!Stonehenge Summer Solstice official live stream ✔️
Appleby: a celebration of Gypsy and Traveller heritage
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- Under the Rainbow 25 July 2024
- Facebook Pix : Mission to Porto, Portugal 25 July 2024
- Facebook Pix : ‘Under the Rainbow’ , Broadway Gallery 23 July 2024
- Porto Panorama 14 July 2024
- The KISMIF Conference [Keep it Simple, Make it fast]. University of Porto, Portugal 12 July 2024
- Friday Night Bar at Casa Da Música, Porto 12 July 2024
- Casa Da Musica – TikTok Video short 12 July 2024
- Prof George McKay : Bumped into the wonderful documentary photographer 11 July 2024
- Plenary Lecture : “Photographing and Documenting Counter-Cultural Culture” Uni of Porto 10 July 2024
- I am invited to be a keynote speaker at the conference in July, University of Porto, Portugal 7 July 2024
- Presentation Prepared for Conference at the University of Porto 7 July 2024
- Casa Da Musica, auditorium 360deg 7 July 2024
- Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock 6 July 2024
- Quote : WE ARE IN REVOLT 6 July 2024
- Events : my website gallery 6 July 2024
- Twenty years of photographing Pride Festival with photojournalist Alan Lodge 2 July 2024
- Stop Rwanda, Solidarity Protest, Nottingham 30 June 2024
- Facebook Pix : Stop Rwanda, Solidarity Protest, Nottingham 30 June 2024
- Couch Surfing At Its Finest 29 June 2024
- Ukraine Protest Rally, Nottingham June 2024. A slideshow 24 June 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: January 2008
Canon Powershot G9
Well, it’s taken a couple of years …… but I have finally taken the leap, and shelled out for a ‘second digital camera’. Not only have I not had the money, but also, the specification of most of the pocket … Continue reading
Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day
Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent. Daily telegraph Britain is in danger of becoming a “surveillance state” as authorities including councils launch bugging operations against 1,000 people a day. Councils, police and … Continue reading
Police demo: one of the most boring events this century.
No chanting, no music, no banners, just a shuffle down Park Lane and onto Victoria to hand in a petition at the Home office. Then on to the pub, i guess. 10 or 20,000 policemen demonstrated through London [depending on … Continue reading
Riseup Radio is launched
Riseup Radio is a community based podcast from Nottingham, UK. Reports, music and chat on stuff that matters. Join us for the monthly podcast… http://riseupradio.wordpress.com It will be a selection of audio reports, put together in an entertaining way, from … Continue reading
Canoeist on the River Trent, in Flood
The river has been rising all week. Floods nowhere near as grim as in the summer and the levels are falling. However there is another shed-load on the way. Earlier in the week, I had been along the Trent to … Continue reading
A selection of Graffiti, down by the river
Went for a walk down by the river this afternoon. I’d gone out to take some more pictures of the river, as it’s in flood. But luckily, levels are falling again now. But I got distracted by these pieces of … Continue reading
Sea Sheperd 2 released by Japanese wailer
Yesterday 17 January 2008, I [with a few hundred others I hope] wrote to Meg Munn MP, Minister for Asia and the Pacific, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. I wanted to know what was being done about it all. [see yesterdays blog … Continue reading
British Sea Shepherd activist held hostage on Japanese whaler
Japanese Whaling Fleet On the Run With Two Sea Shepherd Hostages. The Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 has taken two Sea Shepherd volunteer crew members hostage. Benjamin Potts 28, an Australian citizen and Giles Lane, 35, a citizen … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case : Nottingham Magistrates [day 3]
Now starting day 3 of the trial of the 11 defendants, accused of aggravated trespass at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. Prosecution and defence case having been heard, today was about final statements and the summaries of evidence given over the … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case : Nottingham Magistrates [day 2]
The prosecution case having closed yesterday. The defence opened today with their expert witness: Dr Simon Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Leeds and Royal Society Research Fellow. Scientific evidence suggests CO2 add to global warming temperatures and … Continue reading
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case :: Nottingham Magistrates [day 1]
Before the trial started, there was a protest / gathering of 20 – 30 people outside the court, to offer their support. Holding banners with the slogan “The Earth is getting too hot. Together we can make it stop”, people … Continue reading
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
“Web 2.0” in just under 5 minutes. Dr. Wesch was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, he decided to make this video to show it … Continue reading
Home Office Consultation: Managing Protest Around Parliament
The consultation paper Managing Protest around Parliament stems from a Governance of Britain green paper in which the government committed to consulting on the sections of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act covering demonstrations near Parliament. This consultation takes … Continue reading
This is a space, for art reasons
T h i s is a space, for art reasons ………!
Biofuels on the Archers BBC Radio4 :: “Lots to digest”
The Archers [sorry, but I’m a huge fan], is in the process of covering bio-fuels matters in the plot. The issues being explored through the views of the diversity of characters. From the Industro-agricultural outfits, to Pat & Tony’s organic … Continue reading
Word ‘structure’ research from Cambridge University
Gosh, isn’t this amazing ….. and if you read the following, it appears to be true. “Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is … Continue reading
Cops Appeal for Monitors
Derby Evening Telegraph 09:30 – 09 January 2008 Police are looking for volunteers to help keep them in the frame by monitoring the streets of Ilkeston and Erewash. People are being sought to operate the towns’ CCTV cameras to help … Continue reading
Photographers claim police are exceeding their powers
2 January 2008 Press Gazette By PA Mediapoint More and more photographers are being wrongly prevented from taking pictures in public places by police who do not understand the law, according to a photography trade body. The Bureau of Freelance … Continue reading
Climate Change on Trial
The eleven climate change activists who shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station on April 10th 2007 are on trial for three days from Monday 14th Jan at Nottingham Bridewell Magistrates Court. They have pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated trespass … Continue reading
Climate Camp Photographers: A digital exhibition at the Broadway
A number of photographers documented aspects of the camp, and the surrounding police actions. A selection of this work, is currently being shown in the foyer [and o/s Screen 1] of the Broadway Cinema, Broad Street, Nottingham. The exhibition is … Continue reading