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@NottmGreenFest
As festival season arrives, here's my top tip – you'll get far more aesthetic, cultural and psychic enrichment if you sack off half the music and do something else instead. The latest Listen Here column on @theQuietus:
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/listen-here/listen-here-why-festivals-are-best-if-you-ignore-half-the-music-do-something-else-instead/Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says
Our friends from @PeoplesHistreh will going on two more guided History walks:
'Agitating the Lawless Rabble'
Sun 28 Jul and Sun 4th Aug 2024
2pm Left Lion (Council House)
https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/two-guided-walks-agitating-the-lawless-rabble/
Ends at the back of @BroadwayCinema, stick around to see our free #LGBTQ+ exhibition!Stonehenge Summer Solstice official live stream ✔️
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Recent Posts
- I am invited to be a keynote speaker at the conference in July, University of Porto, Portugal 7 July 2024
- Presentation Prepared for Conference at the University of Porto 7 July 2024
- Casa Da Musica, auditorium 360deg 7 July 2024
- Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock 6 July 2024
- Quote : WE ARE IN REVOLT 6 July 2024
- Events : my website gallery 6 July 2024
- Twenty years of photographing Pride Festival with photojournalist Alan Lodge 2 July 2024
- Stop Rwanda, Solidarity Protest, Nottingham 30 June 2024
- Facebook Pix : Stop Rwanda, Solidarity Protest, Nottingham 30 June 2024
- Couch Surfing At Its Finest 29 June 2024
- Ukraine Protest Rally, Nottingham June 2024. A slideshow 24 June 2024
- Facebook Pix : Ukraine Protest Rally, Nottingham. June 2024 23 June 2024
- Speech: Shuguftah Quddoos, Sheriff of Nottingham 23 June 2024
- Speech: Nadia Whittome 23 June 2024
- The Library of Birmingham hosts a world class photo collection. Unfortunately, most of it is sitting in boxes 22 June 2024
- 40 Years of the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge: From Anarchy to State Repression to ‘Managed Open Access’ 21 June 2024
- Happy Solstice 21 June 2024
- Woodthorpe in Black & White 2 17 June 2024
- Woodthorpe in Black & White, Nottingham 15 June 2024
- Open call for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller photographers 13 June 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
Tag Archives: police
Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock
Me in police negotiation mode at Longstock, Hampshire. Starts at 12:00 mins.
40 Years of the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge: From Anarchy to State Repression to ‘Managed Open Access’
Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist, commentator and activist. If you can help, please click on the button below to donate via PayPal. To celebrate the summer solstice today, I encourage you read my article from June 1, Joys and … Continue reading
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
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
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
Kinder Trespassers ‘would today be kettled and labelled extremists’
Bob Smith, EditorMonday 25 April 2016 01:57 PM GMT If the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place in 2016, its participants would likely have been kettled before getting out of the car park and labelled extremists, an outdoors expert said. … Continue reading
Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins
Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Music, Environmental Protest, Reclaim the Street, Unions, Civil Disobedience, Policemen and …….. Lecture Slideshow 2 60mins. 400 pics / 9 sec change
College of Policing Guidance on Media Relations
Engagement and communication Media relations 3.10 Media briefings Reporting from a scene Reporting or filming from the scene of an incident is part of the media’s role and they should not be prevented from doing so from a public place. … Continue reading
NUJ alarmed at increase in incidents with the police and photographers
The union has commented after charges were dropped against a photographer arrested by South Wales Police one day before the trial was due to begin. Natasha Hirst, NUJ president, said: “There has been an alarming number of incidents of police … Continue reading
Facebook Pix : Stoney Cross, Hampshire. June 1986
https://tinyurl.com/22z92syc Further trouble and the Public Order Act 1986 Things have never been the same again since the Beanfield. Throughout the rest of the year, whether in small groups or at events, travellers were continually harassed. In May and June … Continue reading
Front cover of Festival Eye 1987
…. and then to select this one …. and thus used here
Alan Lodge, Black & White Surveillance. Salon de Normandy by The Community
Alan Lodge, Black & White SurveillanceSalon de Normandy by The CommunityRoom 412, Normandy Hôtel, 7 Rue de l’Échelle, 75001 Paris, FranceOctober 22nd – 25th, 2020. Black & White Surveillance is a presentation of photography and archive materials surveying Alan Lodge’s extensive … Continue reading
‘Photoshoot’ for the front cover of Festival Eye 1986
Annoying my son to get him to pose, with aggression 🙂 This issue of Festival Eye was the first after the police action at the event that became known as the ‘Battle of the Beanfield‘ when 1600 police officers attacked … Continue reading
NUJ wins settlement for photographers at Black Lives Matter protest
The union won an apology and out-of-court settlements for two photographers and a video journalist who were detained while covering a Black Lives Matter solidarity protest for Eric Garner at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, London, on December 10, … Continue reading
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
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