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from counterculture to pop culture, the everyday to the extraordinary: explore eighty years of british identity | read | i-D

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An Ideal For Living archives the images that document the changing culture of modern Britain.

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AofA People: Derek Ridgers – Photographer

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Derek Ridgers is a photographer who is best known for his outlandish portraits of punks, pervs and nightclubbers. His new book is Punk London 1977.

WHO ARE YOU?

Derek Ridgers

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

Twickenham

WHAT DO YOU DO?

Photographer

TELL US WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE YOUR AGE?

If there were no mirrors it would be exactly like being 25.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE NOW THAT YOU DIDN’T HAVE AT 25?

Three grandchildren

WHAT ABOUT SEX?

Heterosexual.

AND RELATIONSHIPS?

Married

HOW FREE DO YOU FEEL?

With a small but close knit family, I probably feel more free than I have any right to be.

WHAT ARE YOU PROUD OF?

My grandchildren

WHAT KEEPS YOU INSPIRED?

The people I meet.

WHEN ARE YOU HAPPIEST?

When I am with my grand children.

AND WHERE DOES YOUR CREATIVITY GO?

Into my work.

WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF LIVING?

I don’t have one.

AND DYING?

I’m fine with it but just not yet thanks.

ARE YOU STILL DREAMING?

Yes

WHAT WAS A RECENT OUTRAGEOUS ACTION OF YOURS?

I haven’t done anything outrageous for 25 years at least.

Punks, Goths, Disco Queens, Rockers and Ravers: Portraits of U.K. Nightlife — Cuepoint — Medium

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I spent four decades capturing images of alternative London’s unique counter-cultural history

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The Firestarters: meet the photographers who captured punk

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The Photographers’ Gallery is not a ragged building. Large windows run straight up and down; inside, the decor is clean, cool and modern with black tile floors and light wooden tabletops. Not, in other words, the most punk venue in London. And yet gathered in the café, chatting amiably, are figures from just about every… Read more »

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Derek Ridgers on forty years of punk fashion | Dazed

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Ahead of the launch of his book Punk London 1977 tonight, the legendary subculture photographer recalls decades shooting London’s outsiders

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