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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
Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham. 9 December 2023 36edit
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Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham. 2 December 2023
Pro-Palestinian Protest March, Nottingham 2nd December 2023
Pro-Palestinian Protest March, Nottingham 2nd December 2023 Samsung S22 Ultra – 4K Video 3840 x2160
Facebook Pix : Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham. 25 November 2023
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Pro-Palestinian Protest & March, Nottingham 11th November 23
Pro-Palestinian Protest & March, Nottingham 11th November 23 Samsung S22 Ultra – 4K Video 3840 x2160
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Nottingham World Article : 11 incredible photos that capture Nottingham’s anti-Iraq war protests twenty years on
This year marks 20 years since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A new exhibition aims to commemorate Nottingham’s opposition to the war
By CJ DeBarra
Nottingham, as a rebel city, has unsurprisingly always had a strong activist movement. A new exhibition opening in Broadway Cinema on Broad Street will commemorate the people’s reaction to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Incredibly, it’s been 20 years since the invasion which saw many demonstrations, rallies and protests held across the city. The free event will take place from Thursday, September 21 until Sunday, September 24 with a chance to see the exhibition, record your stories and donate relevant materials as well as share your memories.
The exhibition has been rescheduled after a powercut at Broadway Cinema in August meant it was unable to open.
The photos on display were taken by photojournalist, Alan Lodge and are supported by leaflets and other campaign materials from a radical archive, The Sparrow’s Nest. The images show campaigners involved in peaceful protests but also capture a snapshot of a changing city as many parts of the background have changed in 20 years or no longer exist.
Peace News Article : Regime change begins at home
Nottingham exhibition remembers 2003 anti-war actions
01 Oct 2023 Feature by Alan Lodge
This photo is from the exhibition, Regime Change Begins at Home – Nottingham Opposition to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, which ran from 21 – 24 September at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, to mark the 20th anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the movement which opposed it. Along with images of protests in Nottingham taken by local photographer Alan Lodge, the exhibition also featured leaflets, newsletters and other materials from the period, mostly from the Sparrows’ Nest Library and Archive.
The exhibition was organised by People’s Histreh (the Nottingham Radical History Group) and the Sparrows’ Nest Archive and Library (which contains tens of thousands of books, journals, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, posters and other items documenting the anarchist movement in the UK and beyond, as well as local radical history): www.peopleshistreh.wordpress.com and www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk
https://peacenews.info/node/10751/regime-change-begins-home
‘Don’t Attack Iraq’ : Nottingham protests 2003 : Opening Event
‘Don’t Attack Iraq : Nottingham protests 2003 : Opening Event 7pm 21 September 2023. Broadway Gallery, Nottingham : Regime Change Begins at Home – Nottingham Opposition to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. 21-24 Sep 2023 Thu 21st Sep 7pm-9pm Opening event with Alan Simpson, ex Labour MP who opposed the war.
‘Stop the War’ photo exhibition at the Broadway, Nottingham
Nottingham Opposition and protest to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years ago. 21-24 Sep 2023
This exhibition marks the twentieth anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq and looks back at the movement which opposed it. The anniversary seems to have passed with surprisingly little mainstream comment – something we want to go some way to addressing.We will display images of protests in Nottingham taken by local photographer Alan Lodge (aka Tash), contextualised with leaflets, newsletters and other materials, mostly from the collections of the Sparrows’ Nest Library and Archive.
Exhibition Opening Times
Thu 21st Sep 7pm-9pm
Opening event with Alan Simpson, ex Labour MP who opposed the war.
Fri 22nd Sep Midday to 5pm
Sat 23rd Sep Midday to 7pm
All day: deposit documents and record your stories. Donate relevant materials for posterity and share your memories of the campaign when you drop in to see the exhibition.
Sun 24th Sep Midday to 7pm
All day: deposit documents and record your stories.
2pm: Guided history walk Agitating the Lawless Rabble, starting at the Left Lion (Council House), ending at the back of Broadway Cinema. Free event, no need to register.
Featuring Photographs by Alan Lodge (aka Tash)
https://alanlodge.co.uk
https://twitter.com/tashuk
Alan Lodge (aka Tash) is a photo journalist living in Nottingham. From his images of the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985, to photographs of the rave movement in the 1990s and his ongoing documentation of policing and surveillance, Tash has built up an incredible archive of images recording decades of alternative and protest movements in Nottingham and beyond.
Organised by
https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/PeoplesHistreh
https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk
https://twitter.com/SparrowsNestLib
‘Don’t Attack Iraq : Nottingham protests 2003 : Opening Event
Don’t Attack Iraq : Nottingham protests 2003 : Opening Event 7pm 21 September 2023. Broadway Gallery, Nottingham : Regime Change Begins at Home – Nottingham Opposition to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. 21-24 Sep 2023 Thu 21st Sep 7pm-9pm Opening event with Alan Simpson, ex Labour MP who opposed the war.
Green Festival, Nottingham. 2023 [50 pics edit]
Green Festival, Nottingham. 2023 [50 pics edit] A slideshow 50x pictures. 8.48 mins.
