Derek Ridgers is one of the UK's foremost portrait photographers with a career spanning forty years. He is best known for his photography of music, film and club/street culture - photographing everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood to Johnny Depp. During his career, Ridgers has worked for many publications, including Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph, NME, The Face, Loaded, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Independent, GQ Style and Arena.

A collection of work by the pioneering street photographer, drawing on his work for "Time Out", "NME", "The Face" and more.

"In over four decades, Derek Ridgers made his name capturing the explosion of subcultures and style tribes from the 1970s to the present. Initially drawn to photography as a music fan who wanted to get closer to the bands, Ridgers found himself at the centre of movements that were as photogenic as its pioneers. This October, he will present a book Derek Ridgers - Photographs published by Carpet Bombing Culture and an exhibition of his archive of candid portraits of the stars of music, screen and even politics. Ridgers calls this his "other photographic odyssey", which features musical legends such as Frank Zappa, Nick Cave, The Beastie Boys, Jarvis Cocker, The Rolling Stones, Christopher Lee, Richard Harris, Samuel L Jackson and more. Curated by Faye Dowling, the exhibition and book will also include the anarchic and the avant-garde, including an unseen collection of printed archive and original magazines such as i-D, The Face and NME."