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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: police
Beanfield : Police exposed film
This is the story of the police action at the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’. The attack on ‘The Convoy’ on the way to the Stonehenge Free Festival on the 1st June 1985. Below is the picture of the exposed film, … Continue reading
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
Public Order Act 2023 : Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc
17 Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc (1)A constable may not exercise a police power for the sole purpose of preventing a person from observing or reporting on a protest.(2)A constable may not exercise a police power … Continue reading
NUJ DM 2023: relations with the police
Nigel Dickinson of the Photographers’ Council said there was a continued lack of understanding by some police forces and their officers of the rights of journalists and photographers. Delegates commended the excellent work conducted by the union to build relationships … Continue reading
Protection for journalists added into anti-protest Public Order Bill
Campaigners had warned the Public Order Bill could make arrests of journalists “commonplace”. By Charlotte Tobitt A specific protection for journalists was added to the Government’s anti-protest Public Order Bill by peers on Tuesday. Peers voted to add a new clause stating that … Continue reading
PCs to get urgent journalist awareness training after M25 arrests
by David Sharman Published 24 Nov 2022 Police officers are to be given journalist awareness training as a matter of urgency following the M25 arrests controversy. Hertfordshire Constabulary has confirmed it will undertake a review to ensure that any Public Order Public … Continue reading
Does the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?
BBC The Media ShowDoes the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?How should journalists cover climate protests? The climate conference Cop27 ends this week. But you might have seen more about the activists who threw oil on a Gustav Klimt painting in … Continue reading
NUJ welcomes review findings into journalists’ arrests at Just Stop Oil protests
23 Nov 2022 An independent review following arrests by Hertfordshire constabulary has outlined police powers were not used appropriately. The report by Cambridgeshire constabulary was requested by Hertfordshire chief constable Charlie Hall, following intervention from the NUJ and widespread public … Continue reading
Arrest of Journalists covering ‘Stop Oil’ protests on M25
You may know of this arrest and situation described here:https://bit.ly/3VsaA2L From my past experiences … this was quite predictable. It is why I continue to bat at this, since I’m quite sure the continued lack of training and press card … Continue reading
Senior officers ordered ‘unlawful’ arrests of journalists at Just Stop Oil protests
Review finds arrests of four journalists covering climate protests last month were directed by senior officers Damien Gayle @damiengayleWed 23 Nov 2022 18.34 GMT Senior police officers ordered the potentially unlawful arrests of four journalists detained while covering climate protests … Continue reading
NUJ signs joint letter to Home Secretary after police arrests of journalists
12 Nov 2022 Ten organisations have highlighted the chilling effect of arrests on freedom of expression and urged Suella Braverman to reconsider plans under the Public Order Bill. Following the wrongful arrests of three journalists for “suspicion of conspiracy to … Continue reading
Police chiefs shift on protest guidance a partial success, but still a missed opportunity
May 26, 2022 | Protest | 0 comments Netpol’s campaign for greater certainty about the way demonstrations are policed has brought some success, but big gaps remain. Over two and a half years since it completed a public consultation, the National Police Chiefs Council … Continue reading
National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Protest Operational Advice Document. Version 3.3 (April 2022)
Over two and a half years since it completed a public consultation, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) finally, in April, published the first full version of its new guidance on the policing of demonstrations and public assemblies. This has … Continue reading
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival The wild bunch Photographer Alan Lodge remembers shooting the mini utopia that was the Stonehenge Free Festival, an event held in the fields surrounding the legendary prehistoric monument. The Free Festival Movement … Continue reading
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has now has received Royal Assent
On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and … Continue reading
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
FREE TO PROTEST: THE PROTESTOR’S GUIDE TO POLICE SURVEILLANCE AND HOW TO AVOID IT
FREE TO PROTEST: THE PROTESTOR’S GUIDE TO POLICE SURVEILLANCE ANDHOW TO AVOID IT https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/FREE_TO_PROTEST-UK-EDITION.pdf
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Progress of the Bill
Research Briefing This Commons Library briefing paper summarises the Commons stages of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the Lords amendments to the Bill. The Commons will consider the Lords amendments on 28 February 2022 Police, Crime, Sentencing … Continue reading
