Matt Maltese 2025
In early 2022 the Arts Council Collection acquired a series of 12 photographs from the Vinca Petersen Archive.
On 4th May 2022 a fundraiser was held at Edel Assanti gallery for Petersen’s charity Future Youth Project which has been working on humanitarian projects in Ukraine , for the last 12 years. A series of charity prints were made for the event and a month long online exhibition hosted by the gallery. Read an…
River Conversation in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
An exhibition of photographs from the ‘Raves And Riots’ series. 3rd June – 30th July 2021. Click here for a conversation between Vinca and Francesca Gavin for the Edel Assanti ‘Home Fires’ series.
https://edelassanti.com/video/27-home-fires-13-vinca-petersen/
A ‘Life of Subversive Joy’ and ‘Come (Sit) Down’ installations at the V&A Dundee. Open now until January 2022. Close ups of the seats for the seating installation ‘Come (Sit) Down’ also at the V&A Dundee. This piece is a re-imagination of the large bed/bench at Sweet Harmony (Saatchi 2019). Due to covid restrictions the…
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A Life of Subversive Joy – A 23m long installation using 600 photos and 200 pieces of ephemera to tell the story of Petersen’s life of raving, roaming and humanitarian projects. Installation first shown at Saatchi 2019, due to be shown at V&A Dundee 2020/21. A highlight of ‘Sweet Harmony: Rave…
Photographs of the book, No System
(Steidl, 1999).
A highlight of ‘Sweet Harmony: Rave | Today’ is Vinca Petersen’s ‘A Life of Subversive Joy’: a great jostling timeline of dates, personal photographs and flyers alongside details of raves she ran and attended scrawled directly on to the gallery wall (‘1st August. Arrived at rave in Plumpton at 7am. Lost it on “blue…
“Seaside Photographed” at Turner Contemporary, 2019. Raver Car Dungeness Rave Norfolk Sleep
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The Martin Parr Foundation is now the permanent home to the working books and colour prints used in the making of No System (Steidl, 1999). Link to Martin Parr Foundation/Vinca Petersen Archive
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Heres a link to the full article : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/29/art-clubbing-nightclubs-denzil-forrester-mark-wigan-williams-vinca-petersen
To listen to a podcast I did for Outerfocus follow this link.
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/11218/four-women-and-a-deuce-and-a-quarter-a-1999-roadtrip-in-photographs Write up & images from Deuce And a Quarter by Maisie Skidmore
This is a link to the works held in the Victoria and Albert Museum permanent collection.
Vinca Petersen interviewed by Sheryl Garratt – Future Fantasy (Ditto 2017) This book uses material from the very start of my archive, a small collection of about 100 photographs I’d kept from my teens and early 20s, along with my diaries. I started taking photos when I was very young: my dad…
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Deuce and a Quarter (Idea, 2018) In 1999, Corinne Day was paid to do a road trip in Texas. She spent most of her budget on a car, the rest on our flights, and four of us all piled into this car and just drove from Houston down to Austin. We followed the Llano…
Photos of Roma, and other Romanians, and their horses, taken from the FYP bus.
Dazed curated projection – Prince Charles Club, Berlin. (To see Dazed article & film of slideshow follow this link…)
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Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.
Another Magazine. Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.
NIGHT SHADES, LONDON Styled by Ellie Grace Cumming
VORTIGERN, MARGATE ARE SHOWING A SELECTION OF VINTAGE PRINTS FROM THE BOOK “NO SYSTEM” AND BEYOND. OPENING NIGHT 5TH DECEMBER.
July 2015 – True Photojournal publish photo story of Petersen’s trip through Texas and down into Mexico with fellow travellers, Susie Babchick, Corinne Day and Rosemary Ferguson in 1999. Follow this link to see all the photos : True Photojournal / Vinca Petersen
Dazed Digital published an article on No System (Steidl 1999). Ashleigh Kane was responsible for an off-the-wall edit. Follow this link to see them all: Dazed Digital / No System
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Link to the FYP website containing all Petersen’s FYP photographic galleries & information.
A journey across West Africa taking a bouncy castle as a form of Laughter Aid.
Raves & Riots 1990-2004 – Description required
The first journey to Ukraine with volunteers and two 7.5 ton lorries full of aid…