Derek Ridgers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Derek Ridgers
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1950(1950-10-20)
Age	74
Birthplace	Chiswick
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Derek Ridgers Biography

Derek Ridgers is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on October 20, 1950 in Chiswick, England, United Kingdom.

Born in Chiswick, West London, Derek Ridgers trained as a graphic artist at Ealing School of Art 1967–71, and where one of his fellow students was Freddie Mercury. Ridgers’s love of music led him to attend many live events of the time, one of which was The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream.

The emergence of punk rock in the late 1970s fascinated Ridgers. Among his first published work were pictures taken on a second-hand Nikkormat, bought as a cheap camera to take to punk nights at the Hammersmith Palais. Ridgers used a flash on a home-made bracket. During this time he photographed a very early Adam and the Ants, The Slits, Penetration, The Clash and The Damned. He had an exhibition at the ICA in 1978.

Derek Ridgers Net Worth

Derek Ridgers is one of the richest Photographer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Derek Ridgers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Derek Ridgers (born 20 October 1950), 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 people such as James Brown, The Spice Girls, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp – as well as politicians (Tony Blair), gangsters (Freddie Foreman), artists (Julian Schnabel), writers (Martin Amis), fashion designers (John Galliano) and sports people (Tiger Woods).

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In 2010, Ridgers collaborated with designer and printer Danny Flynn in an exhibition at Ketchum Pleon entitled Every Bodies Enemies. The pieces combined Ridgers’s portraits of musicians, film makers and actors, such as Keith Richards, Kylie Minogue, Nick Cave, Dennis Hopper, John Lee Hooker, David Lynch, Elvis Costello and Skin with Flynn’s unusual screenprinting technique of printing using everyday powders such as sugar, salt, custard and raspberry powder.

Facts & Trivia

Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Derek Ridgers celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.

Ridgers’s early photography of skinheads led to several situations where he was personally at risk from some of them until he became accepted as an observer. They were approachable and friendly. Many of these photographs were later collected in the book Skinheads (2010).