Derek Ridgers
Artist, Advertiser, Street Photographer
Born in Chiswick, Derek Ridgers trained as a graphic artist at the Ealing School of Art. Ridgers went into advertising, where he worked as an art director for ten years. One of his clients was a camera company, so he picked up the product and gave it a try. When he parted with the agency he decided to take up photography. The emergence of punk rock in the late 1970s fascinated Ridgers.
As well as photographing a wide range of musicians, actors, writers and athletes during his long tenure as a cover photographer at Loaded, Ridgers established his own page of club photographs called 'Getting Away With It', which would run for fifteen years. Loaded also gave Ridgers his own column, 'The Derek Ridgers Interview', in which he told behind-the-scenes stories from his shoots.
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