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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
Tag Archives: festival
Stonehenge Festival Campaign Quarterly News – Spring 2020 Equinox
This issue dedicated to Maureen PooleAka Mo Lodge – 30th March 1953 “Mo was famous – she spoke a lot of sense and walked the talk “ – Helen Dancer Many of you, will by now, have heard of the … Continue reading
Green Festival, Nottingham. 2023 [50 pics edit]
Green Festival, Nottingham. 2023 [50 pics edit] A slideshow 50x pictures. 8.48 mins.
Green Festival, Nottingham A 30 year Selection, (bigger edit)
Green Festival, Nottingham. A 30 year Selection [bigger edit] A slideshow 86x pictures. 15mins.
Green Festival, Nottingham. A 30 year Selection
Green Festival, Nottingham. A 30 year Selection A slideshow 40x pictures. 8mins.
Hatred of Dissent: Reviewing Four Decades of Repressive Tory Laws on the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield – Andy Worthington
38 years ago, on June 1, 1985, a convoy of vehicles carrying what the photographer Alan Lodge described as “a small, mild mannered bunch of people” — around 550 men, women and children, generally described at the time as New … Continue reading
Convoy forming up and leaving Stonehenge, 1982
GOLLY GOSH !!!!! I have found me taking this very photo at 3.55mins inChris Waite’s Film : Stonehenge Visions Tipi Valley Dreams. Pt 3. 1982, 40 years ago ….. Look, I had hair and everything 🙂 me taking this very … Continue reading
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival The wild bunch Photographer Alan Lodge remembers shooting the mini utopia that was the Stonehenge Free Festival, an event held in the fields surrounding the legendary prehistoric monument. The Free Festival Movement … Continue reading
Broxtowe Green Festival, Speeches
Greta – Nottingham Youth Climate AssemblyJennie – Extinction Rebellion
Nottingham Green Festival : Online Resources
Nottingham Green Festival : Online Resources -have just made a further update, viewable from today
The Secret History of Spiral Tribe
The Secret History of Spiral TribeNot many people know this, but the horse-drawn travelers had a big part in shaping the direction of Spiral Tribe in 1991.Back then we were urban squatters. Occupying empty buildings in London to live, work … Continue reading
Remembering the Elan Valley Summer of Love in 1976
By Matt Jones Reporter THE year is 1976. James Callaghan replaces Harold Wilson as prime minister, the Sex Pistols release Anarchy in the UK and the Cod Wars between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights in the North Atlantic are … Continue reading
Tash’s Traveller, Festival Rave etc …. Playlist of past broadcast programmes, about it all
History Of The Mutoids
Early History of Mutoids (1983 – 1989)
Joe Rush & Friends – I am a Mutoid – A Glastonbury Hero
Documentary about the work of Joe Rush and The Mutoid Waste Company I Am A Mutoid a documentary by Letmiya SZTALRYD Spreading the gospel of “Mutation”, Joe Rush and his Mutoid Waste Company, an underground collective of wild and subversive … Continue reading
Photo of FWS Charlie search on police website
Found this picture of FWS Charlie search on the Dyfed Powys police website ….. as you ca see, credited to PC 323 Simon Williams….. BASTARDS theft!! I had issued a ‘takedown notice’ http://dyfed-powys.narpo1.metacraft.org/index.php/photo-album It was in fact taken at the … Continue reading
One of my favourite photos by one of my favourite photographers
One of my favourite photos by one of my favourite photographers, the legendary Alan Lodge.This was at the White Horse festival, the festival that replaced Stonehenge in ’85 following the unlawful brutal and destructive ambush of the travellers and festival … Continue reading
