Derek Ridgers is a British photographer, born in 1950 in Chiswick, west London. He trained as a graphic artist at Ealing School of Art from 1967 to 1971 and then worked in advertising as an art director for ten years, before leaving to become a professional photographer.
He is known for his portraits of London youth culture from the late 1970s and 1980s: punks, skinheads, new romantics and the club scene. His first solo show, Punk Portraits, was at the ICA in London in 1978. He went on to photograph music, film and club culture for music and style magazines. His books include 78–87 London Youth (Damiani, 2014), Skinheads: 1979–1984 (Omnibus Press, 2014) and The London Youth Portraits (ACC Art Books, 2024).
