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- Tour of Britain Cycling Competition, Stage 4, through Hucknall. Friday 6th Sept
- Nottingham Carnival 2024 [180x edit]
- Green Festival Show @Broadway Gallery, Exhibition Walkthrough
- Green Festival, Broadway Gallery Edit. 60mins
- Nadia Whittome MP Speech at Gay Pride, Nottingham
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- Landing at Birmingham. Returning from Porto. RyanAir Boeing 737-800
- Taking off from Porto, returning to Birmingham. RyanAir Boeing 737-800
- Catholic Parade at Matosinhos on Sunday, Porto
- On the Metro crossing the Rio Douro, Porto, Portugal
- Friday Night Bar at Casa Da Música, Porto
- Having a chill at beachfront café, Porto
- Coast road from Foz to Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal 2
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- Street Band in Porto, Portugal.
Blimey, @BuryMarket is getting as bad as @TicketmasterUK I give up. With @jenbanks_ @The_Bitch_Dog and the wonderful ladies of #BuryMarket #DynamicPricing #Oasis25 #Ticketmaster
Thrilled to help open the Green Heart💚 today with the wonderful children from @MellersPrimary 🌳
It’s an honour to have helped to create this beautiful green space for everyone to enjoy, now and for generations to come.‘A 100-year vision’: Skiddaw’s barren peak to spring to life in ambitious rewilding
Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - Nottingham celebrates opening of Green Heart – a brand-new space for community and nature in heart of the city -
MPs walk out as families watch, hoping for justice.
Press release: Entire Peace News staff resign in protest over 'tidal wave of intimidation, harassment and threats' from parent company. Question-mark over future of eighty-eight-year-old peace movement paper: https://peacenews.info/blog/2024/entire-peace-news-staff-resign-protest-over-tidal-wave-intimidation-harassment-and
I am heartbroken to hear of the situation that has lead to the resignations at @peace_news.
PN has been a constant presence and inspiration for all our years, from PN seller David Lane's support in 1984, thru catering 9 PN Camps, to the #Veggies40Years interview in the latest PNIt comes as no surprise that the House emptied just hours after the judge announced the publication of the phase 2 report.
It shows how many of those within the political elite are a part of the disregard, indifference and incompetence that contributed to the deaths of our 72.Local school children from @MellersPrimary were among the first to explore the green heart area, learning about the types of native trees planted as well as the plants that have been added to attract bees and other wildlife 🌳🌿
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Recent Posts
- 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
- 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
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: April 2024
This is happening again
Then it was Cambodia / Vietnam …. now Israel / Gaza …Same shit
Kinder Trespassers ‘would today be kettled and labelled extremists’
Bob Smith, EditorMonday 25 April 2016 01:57 PM GMT If the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place in 2016, its participants would likely have been kettled before getting out of the car park and labelled extremists, an outdoors expert said. … Continue reading
Archaeological Dig
Strangely enough was talking to my son Sam Poole yesterday ….. saying I went back to the Beanfield a couple of years after events. In the hedgerow scraping about a bit, you could find bits of glass, metal and rubber. Got to … Continue reading
Under the Rainbow : Documents and Artefacts From Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation
An Exhibition at Broadway Cinema 25 July – 04 August 2024 – Free Event In the face of aggressive marginalisation, LGBTQ+ people in Nottingham fought for themselves and stood shoulder to shoulder with others. In doing so, they created their … Continue reading
The Mass Trespass : Kinder Scout
It is thanks to these guys that we have the National Parks and ‘some’ access to the countryside. Thank you xx “There were hundreds of young men and women, lads and girls, in their picturesque rambling gear: shorts of every … Continue reading
The Man in the White Suit
This was my very first intro to electronic tunes, here in the Ealing comedy: The Man in the White Suit Composition The “Guggle Glub Gurgle” Leitmotif ofThe Man in the White Suit (1951) Whenever Sidney Stratton’s apparatus is bubbling, or … Continue reading
CIVIC : my website gallery
Nottingham City Council ceremonies with counsellors and assorted officials. Events covered here include the unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue and the dedication of Speakers Corner. Opening of the Goose Fair. A plaque and memorial stone to honour George Africanus … Continue reading
A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it
From right to roam to anger over polluted rivers, a new breed of activists is pushing back against environmental destruction Sun 21 Apr 2024 13.00 Something very interesting is happening in the UK, to do with nature, the expanses of … Continue reading
‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on
Protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, May 1994. Photograph: @mattkosnaps It’s three decades since the government’s attempt to ban raves radicalised an oddball coalition of dance fans, squatters and ‘new age’ travellers. What became of the protesters who tried to kill … Continue reading
MILITARY : my website gallery
Armed Forces Day aims to show the public, various aspects of military life. Invited to cover the Army Presentation Team on their visit to Nottingham University The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment arrived back home following a six-month operational … Continue reading
Peak District. 2 Hours of Beautiful Landscape Photography
The Derbyshire Peak District National Park Peak District. 2 Hours of Beautiful Landscape Photography by Alan Lodge taken with a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra / Expert RAW #landscape #photography #derbyshire #peakdistrict #nationalpark #peakdistrictphotography #samsung #samsunggalaxy #galaxys22ultra #expertraw
POLICING : my website gallery
During news coverage, incidents and situations are frequently attended by police. I have attended news conferences, armed situations and public order incidents. The opening of police stations and civic engagements. Within this set, you can see some specialist police units … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Nottingham Puppet Festival
https://tinyurl.com/289su3n3 One of the highlights of the festival will be a City Centre day produced by City Arts on Saturday 13 April from 11am which will see puppetry and processions of all scales. Free street theatre, shows, music, and marvellous … Continue reading
ARTS : my website gallery
Arts, crafts, installations, graffiti, performance ….. and many things able and mysterious.Here a selection from commissions, university degree shows and galleries. Productions by local artists, sculpture and examples of public and performance arts. https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/arts
Interview with Andy Earl, ex NTU
Andy reflects on his journey studying photography in university, delves into his career progression, explores the valuable lessons learned from mistakes, and shares anecdotes from his photo shoots with musicians.
Facebook Pix : Sunday afternoon at the Sumac 40 years events
https://tinyurl.com/23nbrpfw
Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham
Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham Ft. anarchistwood Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #nottingham#punk #insta360 #acepro #4k
Facebook Pix : Sumac 40 Years gig : Friday Gay Night
https://tinyurl.com/2yjtxfdr anarchistwood … apparently 🙁
PRIDE : my website gallery
With greater acceptance by society, gay pride events have been gaining in popularity. Shown here, events from Manchester, London, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham. Greater Manchester Police and the Gay Police Association asked for this group picture before they joined the parade. It … Continue reading