{"id":3485,"date":"2014-01-13T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T11:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2014-01-13T11:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T11:47:50","slug":"the-ponytail-pontifications-the-sayle-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"Ponytail Pontifications: The Sayle Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written previously <\/a>about the blog by an old friend of mine – though our paths seem seldom to cross these days – Derek Ridgers<\/a><\/em>, whose Ponytail Pontifications<\/a> are always of interest. His latest post about meeting and photographing Alexei Sayle, and his invention of the Sayle Twins<\/a> is a good example.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1980s, Derek and I used to meet up regularly with some other photographers to criticise each other’s work, and Derek pulled no punches, as I mentioned in a post Photo Reviews<\/a>. As I commented there, these critical gatherings “were about developing ourselves as photographers, photo reviews are all about developing your careers<\/em>” and I know that they were important for me, and I like to think that some of my comments (though rather more polite and less controversial than his) may have at least encouraged him, and occasionally\u00a0 I think we both gained from a little mutual advice.<\/p>\n

Derek has worked for over 35 years for UK magazines and Newspapers like NME, The Face, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, Time Out and Loaded, and has a remarkable archive of work, including much on his web site.\u00a0 Sabotage Times<\/a> last month published an interview with him about a book of his pictures from the London Tattoo Convention with a gallery of 13\u00a0 pictures.<\/p>\n

Derek has a new book, Derek Ridgers: 78-87 London Youth<\/a>, due to be published on March 31, 2014, and you can see and hear him talking about his photography in a promo video<\/a>. His pictures are on show at Ketchum Pleon<\/em> at 35-41 Folgate Street in Spitalfields, London E1 6BX in February 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written previously about the blog by an old friend of mine – though our paths seem seldom to cross these days – Derek Ridgers, whose Ponytail Pontifications are always of interest. His latest post about meeting and photographing Alexei Sayle, and his invention of the Sayle Twins is a good example. Back in the … Continue reading Ponytail Pontifications: The Sayle Twins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}