Derek Ridgers Musical artist
Derek Ridgers (born 20 October 1952), is an English photographer with a career spanning over thirty years. He is best known for his photography of music, film and club/street culture – photographing everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood to Johnny Depp – as well as photographing politicians (Tony Blair), gangsters ('Mad' Frankie Fraser), artists (Julian Schnabel), writers (Martin Amis), fashion designers (Vivien Westwood) and sportsmen (Tiger Woods).He has also photographed famous and sometimes influential British social scenes such as skinhead, fetish, club, punk and the New Romantics.
