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- David Hockney: The Art of Seeing – A Culture Show Special (BBC) 13 June 2026
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- Los Viejos y Olvidados (The Old and Forgotten), an exhibition by Juan Aguirre 13 June 2026
- At Speakers Corner this afternoon in Nottingham, I met some Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters 12 June 2026
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- Some thoughts on a coming exhibition of work. A Retrospective 1 June 2026
- Stonehenge and the `Battle of the Beanfield’ an account 1 June 2026
- Battle of the Beanfield, an updated set. 41 years ago today, 1st June 1985 1 June 2026
- Green Hustle, Nottingham 2026 30 May 2026
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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: Photography
How I Created This Dramatic Landscape Photo in Lightroom & Photoshop – From start to Finish
In this video, I go through my whole process for editing a landscape image from start to finish in Lightroom and Photoshop. I begin with merging multiple shots in Lightroom, doing some basic editing, before using Photoshop to remove some … Continue reading
Photographing Anonymous, Nottingham
Gideon Mendel on documenting climate change
Photojournalist and regular AP contributor Peter Dench interviews multi-award winning photographer Gideon Mendel about his career, and his acclaimed long-term projects on climate change, Drowning World and Burning World. Gideon, who won AP’s Power of Photography award at the 2024 … 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
David Hoffman – PHOTO TALK – WTF-STOP PODCAST
David Hoffman – Photo TalkWTF – Stop Podcast
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
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
Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool Video
Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool Activism, trespass, and the climate emergency. Take a fresh look at the British Landscape and the art it inspires. From rural raves in Castlemorton to anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common, this exhibition presents a radical … Continue reading
RADICAL LANDSCAPES
RADICAL LANDSCAPES – TATE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION 5 MAY – 4 SEPTEMBER 2022 Official View © The estate of Claude Cahun Activism, trespass, and the climate emergency. Take a fresh look at the British Landscape and the art it inspires From … Continue reading
The dying art of the photographic darkroom – video
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2011/jan/14/photographing-death-darkroom-video
A Rough Guide to Filming Police Stop and Search
A Rough Guide to Filming Police Stop and Search NetPol https://netpol.org/resources/filming-the-police If you have a smartphone that includes a good quality photo and video camera then you will be able to film the actions of the police during a stop-and-search, if you … Continue reading
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social EngagementPhoto ParlourUnit 8, 18 Queensbridge Road,Nottingham,NG2 1NB Every last Wednesday of the month at 6pm
DiY 30 years. A photographic Exhibition
Photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
A bit of a photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
I regularly go to a photography group here in Nottingham.They / we meet on the last Wednesday of every month at The Photo Parlour … so next one will be Wednesday 23rd Feb at 6pm The Nottingham Photo Social is … Continue reading
