1. Derek Ridgers has photographed people including James Brown, the Spice Girls, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp, as well as politicians, gangsters, artists, writers, fashion designers and sports people.
16 Facts About Derek Ridgers
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Derek Ridgers has worked for Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph, NME, The Face, Loaded, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Independent, GQ, GQ Style, Melody Maker and Sounds.
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Derek Ridgers had an exhibition at the ICA in 1978.
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Derek Ridgers's work appeared in Skin Two magazine under the editorship of Michelle Olley.
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Derek Ridgers had already collaborated with the writer James Brown at NME.
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Derek Ridgers was present at the inception of a magazine that at its height sold 400,000 copies a month.
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Derek Ridgers's compulsion to photograph London clubs over two decades was an extraordinary one.
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Derek Ridgers has produced thousands of remarkable photographs of remarkable people, transient beings moving across an urban landscape, experimenters, flamboyant souls who cared more than anything about how they looked and whose greatest fear was of being ordinary.
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Derek Ridgers's photographs are an undeliberate chapter in a decade of English social and cultural history which changed the way we thought about music, fashion and consumption.
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The worlds that Derek Ridgers photographed were small ones, peopled by young men and women who were captivated by the idea of image.
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Derek Ridgers's photographs do not search souls, they look at surfaces; these are not so much portraits as documents.
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Derek Ridgers's photography captured the transitory nature of culture, a fleeting glimpse into what arrives, passes and is gone.
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In 2017, Derek Ridgers collaborated with the Italian fashion house, Gucci, to shoot their Alessandro Michele-designed men's and women's pre-autumn collection in Rome.
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In 2010, Derek Ridgers collaborated with designer and printer Danny Flynn in an exhibition at Ketchum Pleon entitled Every Bodies Enemies.
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Derek Ridgers is a keen amateur poker player after developing his taste for the game when he covered the World Series of Poker in 2000 for Loaded magazine, photographing the event and the participation in it of the British champion Dave Ulliott.
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Derek Ridgers is a lifelong fan of the English football team, Tottenham Hotspur, is a Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust board member, and has designed the Trust ads and literature.