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- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 19 October 2024
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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
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Photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
A bit of a photo crit session at the Photo-Parlour
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This is a very hypnotic dance
This is a very hypnotic dance …. the point of it i guess
but then look what modern ears reckon what they might be doing …. 🙂
The power of stars to meet our energy needs? This is something to be excited about
The fusion energy industry could produce a breakthrough in human history akin to the adoption of electricity
Being an anti-nuclear guy ……. up to now, I do think, and have always thought that nuclear fusion is a splendid idea. If it can be made to work. The problems with fission is safety of blowing up of course. But also the radio active by-products with half-life of thousands of years. Oh, and decommissioning the plant which remain similarly poisonous.
“…. If it can be perfected, there’s enough fuel for everyone on Earth to use as much energy annually as the average American for at least thousands of years, and probably millions. This form of power doesn’t produce carbon dioxide or long-lived radioactive waste,”
Any nuclear physicists in here to set me straight? What is this long-lived radioactive waste. how long? Really, is this the answer we hope it is?
Can the law fight climate change?
Can the law fight climate change?
Around the world environmentalists are taking governments and companies to court to fight climate change. Joshua Rozenberg explores how the law is evolving into a powerful activists’ tool.
Joshua Rozenberg, BBC Law in Action Podcast. March 2021
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Around my allotment in winter 3
allotment #stanns #Nottingham #tiktok
Around my allotment in winter 2
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Around my allotment in winter 1
allotment #stanns #Nottingham #tiktok
Gerrard Winstanley – a hero of mine
“England is not a free people, till the poor that have no land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the commons”.
So says Gerrard Winstanley a leader of the Diggers, in 1649.
At the end of the English Civil War, people began to realise that after their sacrifice in fighting that war, they had replaced one bunch of uncaring bastards with another lot
…. well, that’s politics and war for you, nothing new there then!!!
I see many parallels with today. The people pitched against an unrepresentative state and aristocracy. The Church acting rather like the present day multinationals, and a lot of people who just wanted to be left alone, without interference from church or state, on land that they respected and loved. I think this gives a little background to highlight an idea of what I mean. 350 years ago now, but a solid example of “DIY culture”, or what!
Selective statistics and misinformation.
Selective statistics and misinformation. Search BMJ parachute 2003 to read the full study!
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials [Hohoho]
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Geocache : Lighting the way
Have just placed a geocache near my new address. A GPS game to see who finds it and passers-by!
Lighting the wayA cache by TashUKMessage this ownerHidden : 2/8/2022Difficulty:
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N 52° 58.949 W 001° 08.165
British Grid: SK 58098 43143
In East Midlands, United Kingdom
NE 168ft from your home location
Geocache Description:
This is a few feet from where the Sherwood Railway Station would have been …. oh so long ago. The garages nearby are on the course of the railway track, the curve of which can be seen to point to the bridge there.
I live in the nearby high rise flats ….. if I see you, might rush out with a tea and bun …. Who knows 🙂
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Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
I regularly go to a photography group here in Nottingham.
They / we meet on the last Wednesday of every month at The Photo Parlour … so next one will be Wednesday 23rd Feb at 6pm
The Nottingham Photo Social is an informal monthly gathering that offers a platform for local photographers to showcase their photography, improve their skills, and develop their personal approach to their photography projects.
It was established in December 2016 by Dan Wheeler and Jake Howe from Photo Parlour, and Jagdish Patel from Primary Studios. All three are working photographers who undertake both commissioned work, and personal projects. The idea of the monthly Photo Social was simply to provide a space to share ideas and think about photography projects, getting ideas for photographs, and the approach to the process of taking photographs.
The event is always the last Wednesday of the month, but what we are doing, and where we are might change!
We welcome anyone who enjoys making photos, whether thats on your phone or on large format film and everything in-between.
The Photo Socials are popular and with each event the social gets better. We are hoping to organise an ongoing programme of practical workshops, classes and talks over the coming year, so if your passion is photography or you’d just like to know more about getting involved with photography in Nottingham, come to the event and feel free to contact us.
The Photo Parlour
Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement
Unit 8,
18 Queensbridge Road,
Nottingham, NG2 1NB
…. which is right near the the Vat & Fiddle.
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