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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
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- 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.
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - The Battle of Cable Street -
Blue plaque erected at Walthamstow Tesco to commemorate lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss
Here's how Kodak brought photography to the masses with the "snapshot".
Holy shit! Bruce Springsteen, with one of the most eloquent endorsements for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz you'll hear. The Boss also delivered one of the strongest repudiations of the loathsome piece of shit I've heard from anyone. Let's fucking go‼️🙌🌊🇺🇸
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop was reportedly inside a taxi in Soho when its back window was hit by a suspected gunshot yesterday. Hislop and the driver are both okay and police are keeping an open mind on motive
So many questions…
— Has he cancelled his Netflix and given up booze and fags?
— Has he adopted the 30p recipe book?
— Has he trained as a doctor/nurse/care-worker/fuit-picker?
— Has he considered charity work?
— Has he had his benefits stopped for missing a Jobcentre meeting?Far-right riots didn't occur in a vacuum: right-wing politicians and media laid the ground by painting migrants, Muslims & people of a colour as a threat.
But we're not your enemy - we’re allies in the fight for a better life.
My speech at Nottingham’s counter demo on Saturday:“Some people did say the police act is the final nail in the coffin”
2 years after anti-Traveller laws came into force, many Gypsies & Travellers are increasingly fearful of travelling and worried about losing their homes – say researchers. Read why 👇
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - “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 -
Former Tory deputy chair and ex-MP Jonathan Gullis is out of work. Seems no school wants him, despite chronic shortages of qualified teachers. Any suggestions of what alternative job he could be reasonably expected to take on? Funnier the better. 🤡🤣
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Recent Posts
- 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
- Facebook Pix : ‘Under the Rainbow’ , Broadway Gallery 23 July 2024
- Porto Panorama 14 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: May 2024
British photography
Gosh! I get a mention in this academic piece on ‘British Photography’ under ‘The 1970’s and 80s: the political turn’. Am in good company here! British photography refers to the tradition of photographic work undertaken by committed photographers and photographic artists in the British Isles. This includes those notable photographers from Europe who have made their home in Britain and contributed so strongly to the nation’s photographic tradition, such as Oscar Rejlander, Bill Brandt, Hugo van Wadenoyen, Ida Kar, Anya Teixeira and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. The 1800s: invention and popularisation Many technical innovations in photography were undertaken in Britain during the 19th century, notably by William Fox Talbot and Frederick Scott Archer. Early aesthetic breakthroughs were made by Lewis Carroll, Hill & Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron and the Pre-Raphaelite photographers, and the “father of art photography” Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Travelling photography under adverse conditions was pioneered by war photographer Roger Fenton, and brought to a high level in England by Francis Frith and others. There were a number of local photographic societies scattered throughout Britain, often holding large annual public exhibitions; yet photography was mostly deemed at that time to be a science and a ‘useful craft’, and attempts at making a fine art photography almost always followed the conventions of paintings or theatre tableaux. There were also early earnest attempts at “trick photography”: notably of spiritualist apparitions and ghosts. Studio and travelling photographers had flourished in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but the developing technology eventually allowed the mass-market commercialisation of cameras. With the introduction of the Box Brownie, casual snapshot photography became an accepted feature of British middle-class life from around 1905. =1845–1945: a century of anthropological documentary= British photography has long had a fascination with recording, ‘in situ’, the lives and traditions of the working class in Britain. This can be traced back to Hill & Adamson‘s 1840s records of the fishermen of Newhaven, John Thomson‘s photography for the famous book “Street Life in London” (1876), the street urchin photography of Dr. Barnardo‘s charity campaigns, Peter Henry Emerson’s 1880s pictures of rural life in the East Anglian fenlands, and Sir Benjamin Stone‘s surreal pictures of English folkloric traditions. This Victorian tradition was forgotten once modernism began to flourish from around 1905, but it appeared again in the “documentary” (a word coined in the 1920s by John Grierson) movement of the early and mid 20th century in activities such as Mass Observation, the photography of Humphrey Spender, and the associated early surrealist movement. Documentary pictures of the working people of Britain were later commercialised and popularised by the mass-circulation “picture magazines” of 1930s and 1940s such as “Picture Post”. The “Post” and similar magazines provided a living for notable photographers such as Bill Brandt and Bert Hardy. Also very notable is George Rodger’s London work for the US magazine “Life.” These large-format picture magazines served covertly as a “education in what a good photograph should look like” for their readers, something that was otherwise totally lacking. The British documentary movement contributed strongly to the poetic nature of some wartime early home front propaganda, such as Humphrey Jennings’ approach to film. 1945–1965: the post-war lull After the end of the war, photography in Britain was at a very low ebb. Due to post-war shortages and rationing it was not until about 1954 that it became easy to buy photographic equipment and consumables. As new cameras began to appear, there was debate over the ability to take ‘good’ pictures using old pre-war cameras. This argument was famously answered by “Picture Post” photographer Bert Hardy, who went to the seaside with a simple old Box Brownie camera and came back with some of the most memorable images of England in the mid 1950s. The pre-war picture magazines such as “Picture Post” declined rapidly in quality, and “Picture Post” eventually closed in 1957. Yet the desire to continue the photographic recording of everyday pleasures was evident in the 1950s Southam Street work of Roger Mayne, and also in the early 1960s in the work of Tony Ray-Jones (his “A Day Off”, 1974). Ray-Jones is known to have scoured London for the then uncollected photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone, one example of the piecemeal but growing awareness of the work of earlier British photographers. Ray-Jones’s extensive legacy in turning the mundane into the surreal can be seen in the 1990s work of contemporary photographers of everyday life and leisure, such as Homer Sykes, Tom Wood, Richard Billingham and Martin Parr. The 1960s: fashion and royalty The tradition of working-class and political photography runs in tandem with photography of the upper classes and British royalty, and the photography of the dandy culture of high fashion. … Continue reading
Academic recreates photos by 19th Century pioneer
A researcher has used traditional equipment and techniques to recreate images by a pioneering Victorian photographer. Last year it emerged Ernest Howard Farmer was the photographer behind A Wiltshire Thatcher, which was used on the cover of the Led Zeppelin IV … Continue reading
Thrills and spills during Cheese Rolling contest 2024 in the UK
Footage from the annual event which took place on Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, today (May 27 2024). Among the winners were American Abby Lampe who won the Women’s Cheese Rolling race for the second time. Among the men’s winners … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest and March, Nottingham. 25 May 2024
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We humans and other animals live on this planet’s surface ….
We humans and other animals live on this planet’s surface. We are supposed to be here. However, since Enclosure Act 1773, we have fences put up around us with signs saying keep out! Travellers and festival goers have been acutely … Continue reading
NTU Art & Design Degree Show 2024
NTU Art & Design Degree Show 2024 Display in the Bonington Gallery, NTU Samsung S22 Ultra – 4K Video 3840 x2160 NTU #ntuartanddesign #nottingham #samsung #S22ultra
Facebook Pix : David Stooke, Artist. Salisbury
https://tinyurl.com/2bwbmhut After the Beanfield Mission, [16th May], went to visit my mate, Dave Stooke last week. As he remarked, we not seen each other for over 35 years [gosh!]. Many here will know of his paintings.While there, I wanted to … Continue reading
Revisited the Beanfield : 16 May 2024
Revisited the Beanfield last week. TV company wanted to do an interview about it all, the terrors of the afternoon and the implications for us all since. Facebook Pix : https://tinyurl.com/2bcwgwd4 Before meeting them, I insisted that they watched our … Continue reading
Our right to roam – victory for Gypsies and Travellers in High Court challenge
Travellers Times 14 May 2024 ‘Anti Traveller’ law declared “unjustified discrimination” by High Court judge The High Court has today ruled that certain parts in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 that were introduced in 2022 (the anti-Traveller … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Gaza Protest Camp, University of Nottingham. 36 Edit
Gaza Protest Camp, University of Nottingham. Jubilee Campus 36 Edithttps://tinyurl.com/ywxeuoc9
Have you been there? A documentary photography project on medium format film
Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 11 May 2024 vid2
Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 11 May 2024 vid2 Samsung S22 Ultra – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #Gaza #palestine #protest #palestinian #nottingham #samsung #S22ultra
Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 11 May 2024 vid1
Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 11 May 2024 vid1 Samsung S22 Ultra – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #Gaza #palestine #protest #palestinian #nottingham #samsung #S22ultra
New Media, New Rules: Reimagining Photojournalism
When was the last time you saw a great news picture? Or a piece of reportage that truly made an impact? Regardless of your opinion of the winners, did you see any of the World Press images winners when they were actually … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham. 11 May 2024 72edit
Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham. 11May 2024 72edit https://tinyurl.com/26js2fhy
Peregrine : First chick … 3 more to go xx
Peregrine Falcon, a first chick … 3 more to go. High up on the Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University https://www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/peregrine-cam
Di Peasey NUJ Speech on killing of Journalists in Gaza by Israeli Forces and elsewhere, MayDay 2024
Di Peasey NUJ Speech on killing of Journalists in Gaza by Israeli Forces and elsewhere, Nottingham Mayday Rally, 4th May 2024 Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #cuts #nottingham #NUJ #unions #protest #insta360 #acepro #4k Attacks on press … Continue reading
Mayday Parade in Nottingham : Unions : Cuts : Gaza
Mayday Parade : Unions : Cuts : Gaza Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160 #mayday #cuts #nottingham #council #unions #protest #insta360 #acepro #4k
Dance in protest: 30 years of the UK’s anti-rave Criminal Justice Bill
DJmag HAROLD HEATH 1 May 2024, 14:30 1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised … Continue reading