Between 1978 and 1987, British photographer Derek Ridgers photographed the faces of London’s serious and stylish youth-culture, from punk, through skinhead boot boys and New Romantic decadence to the birth of acid house.
78-87 London Youth, by Derek Ridgers is published by Damiani.
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