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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 âNew Age Travellersâ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in âAlternativesâ, and youthsâ 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 (ârave cultureâ), 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 âWinstonâ from Privacy International, at the 1998 âBig Brotherâ Awards. The citation reads: âAlan 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 activistsâ.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
Quotes & Thoughts
âCowardice 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.â
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 â 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: Tash
Convoy forming up and leaving Stonehenge, 1982
GOLLY GOSH !!!!! I have found me taking this very photo at 3.55mins inChris Waite’s Film : Stonehenge Visions Tipi Valley Dreams. Pt 3. 1982, 40 years ago ….. Look, I had hair and everything đ me taking this very … Continue reading
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
The 1992 gathering led to a wave of controversial legislation targeting free parties, Roma and New Age travellers.
On the 30th anniversary of seminal UK rave Castlemorton, free party veterans have been drawing comparisons between the infamous Criminal Justice And Public Order Act 1994 (CJA) and new legislation targeting protests. From May 22nd through 29th, 1992, tens of … Continue reading
30 years ago this week was a rave so chaotic that it shook Middle England to its core – DJMag TikTok
Tash on festivals, free party, rave, Castlemorton, Stonehenge, Beanfield etc etc … and so on…. DJ Mag
Castlemorton 1992: photographing the illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever This week marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton â a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic … 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
BBC Tash Interview about Castlemorton
BBC Hereford & Worcester 23-05-22 – Tash Interview about Castlemorton and my photography My bit starts at 2.20.15 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c4rj15
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
âRadical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews:
” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting on it. … Continue reading
Radical Landscapes : Art, Identity and activism Tate Liverpool
Extract : ” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting … Continue reading
Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
Two reviews in the Guardian ⌠this one is kinder to the show: “âŚ. The trespasses are represented in the show by 1930s press photographs. Images from half a century later, taken by Alan Lodge, of the confrontation now known … Continue reading
Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes
Guardian didn’t like the show .. but liked my bit, well yes, of course “âŚ. Alan Lodge shows slides and videos of free festivals in the late 80s including at Stonehenge; the soundtrack had me wanting to shuffle along with … 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 â 4 SEPTEMBER 2022 Official View Š 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
I get a mention in Creative Quarter, Nottingham
One Eye on the Road by photographer Alan Lodge January 29th 2018 by CQ Nottingham Trent University (NTU) BA and MA Photography alumnus, Alan Lodge, comes from a free festival and traveller background. Living in old buses, trucks and caravans, … Continue reading
1000 subscribers to my YouTube Channel
Just past 1000 subscribers to my YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/tashphoto
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From rural to radical, Tate Liverpool re-evaluates the art of landscape with major exhibition for summer 2022
In summer 2022 Tate Liverpool will present Radical Landscapes, a major exhibition showing a century of landscape art revealing a never-before told social and cultural history of Britain through the themes of trespass, land use and the climate emergency. by CULTURE … Continue reading
