On Friday 4th October 2024, the Fashion & Textile Museum in Bermondsey launches their new exhibition ‘Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80’s London’. Derek Ridgers image of Leigh Bowery photographed in his home in 1987 is selected as the poster image and will be available as a limited edition print. The exhibition runs until March 2025.
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"
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