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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: guardian
Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today
Castlemorton Common rave, 1992 By Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge This snapshot of gurning ravers was taken at the largest illegal rave in UK history. Alan “Tash” Lodge had been attending free festivals since the 70s. On a sunny bank holiday weekend in … 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
Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain
Despite films and exhibitions celebrating working-class photographers, their voices are increasingly rare today Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent At the end of Tish, the documentary about the photographer Tish Murtha, one of the lingering questions posed by her daughter Ella is … Continue reading
Quote : As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution ….
“As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution. I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave. I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of … Continue reading
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
“Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews:
” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting on it. … Continue reading
Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
Two reviews in the Guardian … this one is kinder to the show: “…. The trespasses are represented in the show by 1930s press photographs. Images from half a century later, taken by Alan Lodge, of the confrontation now known … Continue reading
Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes
Guardian didn’t like the show .. but liked my bit, well yes, of course “…. Alan Lodge shows slides and videos of free festivals in the late 80s including at Stonehenge; the soundtrack had me wanting to shuffle along with … Continue reading
The dying art of the photographic darkroom – video
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2011/jan/14/photographing-death-darkroom-video
The Guardian has removed 3 very recent articles
The Guardian has removed 3 very recent articles apparently by order of a judge for ‘contempt of court’.The story in the first removed article is about a letter signed by more than 400 Scientists and academics which states that they … Continue reading
