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Recent Posts
- Me in 10mm Wide-Angle 12 May 2026
- Panoramas in BW 10 May 2026
- Saturday Afternoon Panoramas 9 May 2026
- How DiY Sound System blazed a trail for the ’90s free party movement 9 May 2026
- ’90s rave documentary, Free Party: A Folk History, set for streaming release – DJ mag 9 May 2026
- Free Party: A Folk History, streaming event 9 May 2026
- Free Party- A Folk History + Q&A at Bonington Theatre, Gedling, Nottingham 8 May 2026
- A Dope Portrait 7 May 2026
- Berlin Wall Gallery 6 May 2026
- Berlin Eastside Art Gallery 6 May 2026
- Free Party- A Folk History + Q&A at Bonington Theatre 4 May 2026
- A message from NUJ on World Press Freedom Day 2026 3 May 2026
- Today is World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2026
- A Musical Interlude at the MayDay Rally, Speakers Corner, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- Nadia Whittome MP speech disrupted by the RCP at MayDay, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- Chris T, Nottingham NUJ speech on the jeopardy faced by journalists worldwide 3 May 2026
- MayDay Rally at Speakers Corner, Nottingham 3 May 2026
- This World Press Freedom Day, American journalists are under attack 2 May 2026
- Water feature in Sheffield, slow motion 30 April 2026
- Journalists report physical attacks and death threats to safety tracker 28 April 2026
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: protest
Free Party- A Folk History + Q&A at Bonington Theatre, Gedling, Nottingham
Tonight :: Friday 8th May, I am contributing to the Questions and Answers about the film and scene, after the showing …. please come if you can. Bonington theatreArnold Leisure CentreHigh Street ArnoldNottingham NG5 7EE 7.00pm on Friday 8th May … Continue reading
A Musical Interlude at the MayDay Rally, Speakers Corner, Nottingham
Nadia Whittome MP speech disrupted by the RCP at MayDay, Nottingham
Nadia Whittome MP speech disrupted by the RCP at MayDay, Nottingham Nottingham, this mayday, we are standing together against the far right. A far right that threatens everything that we hold dear. Our sense of community. Our human rights. Our … Continue reading
Chris T, Nottingham NUJ speech on the jeopardy faced by journalists worldwide
Chris T, National Union of Journalists, Nottingham Thank you everyone. It does feel slightly odd to be the one up here rather than the one taking the photographs. Yeah, it’s a chance for all of you to get your own … Continue reading
MayDay Rally at Speakers Corner, Nottingham
Charles Veitch on YouTube : Confrontationist
I asked Gemini AI: “What is the best way to deal with CharlesVeitch on YouTube?” Charles Veitch is a controversial British YouTuber who creates content by walking through city centres, filming the public, and frequently engaging in confrontations with passersby, … Continue reading
‘Stop Trump’ Rally at Speakers Corner, Nottingham.
‘Stop Trump’ Rally at Speakers Corner, Nottingham. Speeches by Nadia Whittome MP and others … oh and a right-wing blogger came to visit!
Sherwood Library opening …. finally!
Years go by …. well 6 years of ping pong between Nottingham City Council and the developers on whos fault stuff happening was …. Anyway, it’s open now. There was the un-official campaigners opening {without them, we would still be … Continue reading
The Crime and Policing Bill progress
There so much happening every day that stories which would once have made national news and debate aren’t even mentioned. After successive authoritarian public order legislation was passed by the Tories, Labour MPs just voted to pass yet more repressive … Continue reading
Proposed new police powers ‘a draconian threat to the right to protest’
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill returns to the commons for its final stages on Tuesday 14 April. MPs will consider lords amendments, including a proposal that will grant the police sweeping new powers to restrict or effectively ban protests (Lords Amendment … Continue reading
Truth for victims and families as Orgreave Inquiry launches
Miners and campaigners will finally get the answers they deserve as the government launches an inquiry into the violent events at Orgreave in 1984.From:Home Office and Sarah Jones MPPublished26 March 2026 From today (26 March), the inquiry will begin investigating the violence … Continue reading
NUJ members join historic Together Alliance march
NUJ members joined thousands who gathered in London on 28 March for the Together Alliance demonstration, in a powerful display of solidarity and resistance to the far right. According to Together Alliance, half a million people attended the march, though the Metropolitan … Continue reading
Ukraine : Rally and Protest
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Iranian Protest, for and against the military situation, Market Square, Nottingham
Golly gosh! A very confusing and dynamic event in the Market Square in Nottingham this afternoon.‘Our Party’, unions and left called a protest to oppose the American and Israeli military adventures against Iran. Some Iranians agreed that they did not … Continue reading
Today at the SpyCop enquiry, on photographers
BLOODY HELL, photographers, did they mean me???? Report by #spycop Carlo ‘Neri’/Soracchi: “No Platform will try to avoid police, but accept that confrontation with them is almost inevitable. Members will speak to officers when being followed, complying with basic requests, … Continue reading
