My friend Tom Ridgway, who has died of cancer aged 51, was a freelance writer, editor and translator. He worked prolifically: on serious documents for the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; and on less earnest fashion and culture magazines, including Colors, System and Tank – he once received a Louis Vuitton bag as payment.
He lived in many places, including Lichfield, Malvern, Treviso, New York and Berlin, but, for the past 20 years, he had made his home in Paris, eventually becoming a French citizen. There, over the last decade, he became a specialist in editing photographic essays, including for the publishers Delpire & Co, Atelier EXB and Self Publish, Be Happy.
