'I only visited Ku once and that was in 1984. It was the night Divine played. It was a bit like Camden Place transposed to the Med. The building itself was like no other club I’ve been to before or since, insofar as it was more like a James Bond film set than a club. Half of it was in the open air, there was a swimming pool and a water slide in the shape of the neck of a dragon.'
Read MoreHighSnobiety licensed Derek Ridgers snogging couple image taken at the club Gossips 1978 for their editorial feature ‘Pearls, Pins & Provocateurs’ on how the punk aesthetic continues to influence fashion and challenge social norms.
Read MoreDerek Ridgers 80's club portraits exhibiting in Everything at Once: Postmodernity, 1967 - 1992, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. The great age of subcultures, disco, punk and techno-pop and shoulder pads! Exhibition runs until 24th January 2024.
Read MoreDerek Ridgers relives his nights at the Blitz Club and delved into archive, featuring pictures of the era-defining New Romantic club night for a 12 page Art Portfolio article in issue 70 of 10 Magazine.
Read More‘Young Limbs Rise Again’ is a limited edition vinyl and cd box set and book that celebrate the subculture of Goth from the music played and bands that performed at the legendary Batcave, a weekly club night hosted at the heart of Soho’s Dean Street in the early 1980s.
Read MoreUnravel Productions consulted on the film ‘Tramps’ by director Kevin Hegge licensing Blitz Club era imagery from the archives of renowned subculture photographer Derek Ridgers and photographer and anthropologist Ted Polhemus.
TRAMPS! is a feature-length documentary that looks at how, in London in the 1980s, an onslaught of art students arriving in the city resulted in a unique cross-fertilization of British art, fashion, music and film which created a flourish of creative output, culminating in a group known as "The New Romantics"
Read MoreDave Swindells and Derek Ridgers archives feature in the final commemorative print issue of Time Out magazine. Dave was the Time Out Club Editor between 1986 - 2009 and his recent book ‘Acid House As It Happened’ is featured, along with some of Derek’s London street style portraiture .
Read MoreThe Sweet Harmony range with Know Wave comes at a perfect time during a challenging moment in our shared history. The iconic photographs by Derek Rodgers, Ted Polhemus and Dave Swindells celebrate the freedom, fashions and feelings of thirty years ago, and remind us to carry that spirit of rave forward as we all step into a new future.
Read MoreSaint Laurent Rive Droite collaborates with Derek Ridgers under the curation of Anthony Vaccarello for ‘The Lovers’ exhibition in Paris and Los Angeles stores from 10th to 28th February 2021.
Read MoreDerek Ridgers image of Gaye Black from The Adverts, is part of UK Punk Icons Collection by Rock Roll Repeat.
The image of Gaye was taken in 1977 at The Vortex.
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