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Derek Ridgers @derekridgers

My new book 'Hello, I Love You' is out now (6/12). It's available only from idea.ltd

Joined January 2010
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Pharaoh Sanders "The Creator has a Master Plan" live in concert, 1968 📽️: Lonnie Liston Smith - piano, Sirone - bass, Najeed Shabazz - drums #jazzisdead

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8 Romantic Photo Books to Explore This Valentine’s Day

As Valentine’s Day draws closer, we’ve picked out some of our favourite photo books about love, featuring Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin and Hajime Sawatari

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Spurs' great captain, Danny Blanchflower, born 100 yrs ago today. Tonight, we'd do well to recall his words: "The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom". #COYS
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Annie Atkins, Liang-Jung Chen and Derek Ridgers: Tickets now available for February’s Nicer...

After a fantastic 2025 filled with Nicer Tuesdays events across the world, our monthly event is back in London for some talks about graphic design on film sets, unique performance art and photograp...

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All I Want For Christmas Is A Snog

“In 2025, snogging – good old-fashioned getting off with someone – almost feels retro,” writes Lauren O’Neill on photographer Derek Ridgers’s new Idea tome dedicated to the long lost PDA.

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For what (seems like) basically a fashion magazine they ask me mostly questions about photography here.  Which is good… I suppose. officemagazine.net/hello-i-l…

Hello, I Love You

Capturing Love with Derek Ridgers.

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Derek Ridgers’ portraits of passionate moments in public

Hello, I Love You is the new photo book compiling the cult photographer’s pictures of erotic encounters in clubs, pubs and tube stations across London

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I’ll be talking (and hopefully meeting interested parties) at the The Northern Eye International Photography Festival this weekend in Wales. northerneyefestival.co.uk/

The Northern Eye Photography Festival 2025

The Northern Eye International Photography Festival returns to Colwyn Bay 4th and 5th October 2025. Limited numbers of EARLY BIRD tickets are available now. Our core Speaker’s Weekend, this year held...

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Strange days: how the Blitz club changed the 1980s – and fashion

A new exhibition looks at how the legendary London club spawned acts such as Spandau Ballet and Boy George – but also provided a petri dish for fashion and style to grow

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9 Sep 2025
Replying to @JustTheFacts_68 @TizzyEnt
This was so revolting, so nausea inducing, I thought fellow posters would really love some soul-cleansing, joyous music to restore some faith in human nature: x.com/supertanskiii/status/1…

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This is one of the most magical and joyful things that I have ever seen. Paris, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. 5 minutes of pure joy.
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Film stars, photographers and fans: the other side of Cannes – in pictures

Derek Ridgers attended the Cannes film festival every year from 1984 to 1996, documenting the celebrities, crowds and paparazzi. The results are featured in a limited edition book published by Idea

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I’ll be getting to Vitoria Airport around 3.00pm on Wednesday and looking for a car / cab / Uber share to Bilbao? #Spurs #Bilbao #UELfinal #COYS
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My new book reviewed on CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/16/s…

‘Fun, crazy and ludicrous’ images of Cannes before camera phones | CNN

This year’s festival will largely be experienced via social media, but photographer Derek Ridgers remembers capturing a different era of the event — in the 1980s and 1990s, without a single cell...

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17 May 2025
📽️ A Rabbit's Foot Issue 11 has arrived just in time for the Cannes Film Festival! The Riviera Special includes an interview with photographer @DerekRidgers, featuring this incredible 1990 shot of Sylvester Stallone. 👀 Browse the full @arabbitsfoot_ archive on Exact Editions.
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Cannes Film Festival’s glory years in photos, 1980s-90s

‘Fashion shoots, porn-star photo calls, beach parties, nightclubs… For a photographer, it was a full-on 15-hour day,’ recalls Derek Ridger, whose book Cannes is out now

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Sex on the Beach: A New Photo Book Captures the Fading Decadence of Cannes

Sun! Skin! Stars! And packs of ravenous paparazzi! Celebrated photographer Derek Ridgers’ latest book celebrates Cannes in a less buttoned-up age.

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Hollywood Reporter 7 May 2025 issue has a write up of new book called "Cannes" by Derek Ridgers, which has mention of JD & pic. I have never seen the pic before. 500 copies of the book will debut 15 May online at IDEA and at all Dover Street Market locations (London, NY & LA).
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