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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: free
Facebook Pix : Criminal Justice Bill Protest Pictures
Another submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/28qqtf5r
Facebook Pix : Castlemorton, DiY, FreeParty and Clubs
First submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/2ysdm7xy
Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition
The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene By Mark Taylor Life Writer Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of … Continue reading
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H … Continue reading
Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol. * Aaron Trinder, Filmmaker* Harry Harrison, DiY* Steff Pickles, Traveller* Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’, Photographer …. video of the panel by Sam also check out the groove at ….
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
Blocked from Facebook for 24 hours
For heaven sake! I have been blocked for 24 hours from posting on Facebook because I had uploaded this image. Now I know the ‘community guidelines’ go on about nudity and sexual activity etc ….. but if anyone sees rudeness … 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
Photographic Exhibition titled: ‘Freedom’
Welcome to an evocative collection of freedom themed photographs, a generous visual response by over two hundred talented photographers. Individually the images illustrate personal notions of freedom, collectively they articulate the nuance of freedom itself from multiple perspectives. A compelling mix … Continue reading
The 1992 gathering led to a wave of controversial legislation targeting free parties, Roma and New Age travellers.
On the 30th anniversary of seminal UK rave Castlemorton, free party veterans have been drawing comparisons between the infamous Criminal Justice And Public Order Act 1994 (CJA) and new legislation targeting protests. From May 22nd through 29th, 1992, tens of … Continue reading
30 years ago this week was a rave so chaotic that it shook Middle England to its core – DJMag TikTok
Tash on festivals, free party, rave, Castlemorton, Stonehenge, Beanfield etc etc … and so on…. DJ Mag
Castlemorton 1992: photographing the illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever This week marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic … Continue reading
DiY Sound System: Anarchist Ravers of Castlemorton : Vice Video
Including 25x of my pictures, supplied to illustrate the background to this material and interviews. “Someone called us 72 hour party people. It would start on Saturday and finish on Tuesday.”In the 1990s, no one partied harder than the raver. … Continue reading
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol [Outside Panels]. Picture : thanks to Nick Clague
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective Exhibition, at Lost Horizons. Bristol [Outside Panels]. Picture : thanks to Nick Clague
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H & Jack), Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, photographer … Continue reading
DiY on Snapchat : Vice report
Interviews with lots of my pictures https://story.snapchat.com/p/f9fb2dea-098a-45db-b661-0faf9d1ae688/1380103818647552
Free Party Exhibition – A Retrospective, Bristol
I have pictures in this exhibition, which runs from the 20th – 28th May in Bristol 1-3 Elton St, St Jude’s, Bristol BS2 9EH My main event is on the 28th https://www.showponies.studio/work/free-party-a-retrospective SATURDAY 28TH10am – 1pm – Free Entry to … Continue reading
