1980s punk fashion

Photographer Derek Ridgers spent more than ten years documenting the music and people he loved.

FROM punks to new romantics to mods, it seemed everybody in the 80s belonged to their own tribe. And one photographer’s work has revealed just how different the music, lifestyle and even the …

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