On Thursday 7th June, Bunney will be launching their first exhibition at Dover Street Market.
Continuing on from the first Bunney paper, this exhibition features selected works from classic London photographer Derek Ridgers.
From the mid seventies through to the late eighties Ridgers captured some of the most significant movements in British youth culture history, not through images of the major players and influencers but through portraits of individuals who made up those scenes. Often nameless, always authentic, they are given a quality of attention traditionally reserved for celebrities; classic portraiture let loose on the unconventional and nonconformist inhabitants of outsider culture. They are people worthy of our attention in part because they are anything but celebrities. Through this body of work, Ridgers captures the potential of expression through style, the potential of individuals to communicate powerful statements using the body - clothes, hair, tattoos - as the medium. It's a language that goes beyond fashion and beyond trend. It's about appropriation and identity the inherent tension between conformity and freedom. What these images portray is a kind of individualism that many of us will find shocking and unsettling.
