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Recent Posts
- Facebook Pix : Celebrating the Syrian Revolution in Nottingham 14 December 2024
- Speech by Shuguftah Quddoos, the EX- Sheriff of Nottingham on the cuts 4 December 2024
- Photography : The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman 30 November 2024
- ‘If I cannot speak up without being sanctioned, I cannot remain’: Former Sheriff of Nottingham quits Labour Party 29 November 2024
- The Guardian view on the ‘spy cops’ inquiry: police lies are finally being exposed 28 November 2024
- Expert Blog: The future of digital arts education 28 November 2024
- How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’ 26 November 2024
- Left Lion : Smokescreen DiY Sound Systems 19 November 2024
- House and proud: a retrospective of Smokescreen Soundsystem 19 November 2024
- Landing at Birmingham from Malaga 7 November 2024
- Take off from Malaga for Birmingham 7 November 2024
- On the Road from Granada to Malaga 6 November 2024
- Alhambra, Granada. Spain 4 November 2024
- The undercover copper who spied on Keir Starmer and seduced the activist the young Leftie lawyer was representing. 25 October 2024
- Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987. 15 October 2024
- The Battle of Cable Street 4 October 2024
- Castlemorton Picture : Guardian online 28 September 2024
- Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today 28 September 2024
- Photography Turns 200 Years Old Today 17 September 2024
- “That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps – two years on 13 September 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
Photography : The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman
The Guardian view on the ‘spy cops’ inquiry: police lies are finally being exposed
Editorial It is due to the courage of victims that we are learning why these undercover officers behaved as they didThu 28 Nov 2024 18.57 GMTShare Even for those familiar with parts of the stories about women who were deceived into … Continue reading
How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’
Thirty years ago, more than 500 activists united to save a street – and their actions marked a major turning-point in the environmental movementSteve RoseTue 26 Nov 2024 10.00 GMT Walking through Leyton, in east London, you could easily miss … Continue reading
Left Lion : Smokescreen DiY Sound Systems
House and proud: a retrospective of Smokescreen Soundsystem
Words: Vita FitzSimons, Left Lion Photos: Matt Smith, Alan Tash Lodge, Gary Pfeiffer, Nick Clague @kush1969, Henry Ratcliffe Tuesday 19 November 2024 Being home to two of the UK’s greatest underground house soundsystems, DiY and Smokescreen, Nottingham has been spoilt for quality deep … Continue reading
The undercover copper who spied on Keir Starmer and seduced the activist the young Leftie lawyer was representing.
Daily Mail . 18 Oct 2024 . By Jane Fryer John Barker was well-built, fit, muscular and attractive with thick, dark hair cut long at the back and shaved at the sides into a mullet, as was the fashion in the late … Continue reading
Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987.
A few short years ago, Bob Lambert’s star was rising high. Having retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2008, he had built on his reputation as a Special Branch Detective Inspector, an expert on terrorism and how to combat it. … Continue reading
“That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps – two years on
12 September 2024 Two years after the new anti-Traveller laws came into force, many Gypsies and Travellers; who still go out travelling and who regularly camp ‘roadside’ with their trailers, are increasingly fearful of travelling because they are worried about … Continue reading
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
