When Derek Ridgers spent his first holiday in Ibiza in 1983, he was amazed to witness the vibrant and extraordinary nightlife of its capital, especially the huge KU club just a few kilometres away. Returning the following year, he decided to immortalise it all and submit it to The Face magazine. However, the idea of an article on the Ibiza scene was rejected.

It is undeniable that those years marked a renaissance of music, freedom and creativity on the island, which was exported around the world. Balearic rhythms, ecstasy, chillout, superclubs and the rave scene became the biggest youth culture story of the eighties.

Forty years after these never-before-published photographs, OJOS DE BUEY recovers this testimony of Ibiza, called “the decadent playground of everyone’s imagination”.

Text in English and Spanish.

First edition: 2024.

Softcover.
32 pages.
245 x 170 mm.

ISBN: 978-84-126567-7-0