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Matt Maltese  2025

Matt Maltese 2025

                                     

Arts Council Collection 2022

Arts Council Collection 2022

In early 2022 the Arts Council Collection acquired a series of 12 photographs from the Vinca Petersen Archive.

Ukraine FYP Fundraiser 2022

Ukraine FYP Fundraiser 2022

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…

National Portrait Gallery 2021

National Portrait Gallery 2021

River Conversation in the National Portrait Gallery collection.  

Female Radical Joy : UNIT

Female Radical Joy : UNIT

SOCIAL HONEY – A COLLECTIVE SEARCH FOR JOY 2022

SOCIAL HONEY – A COLLECTIVE SEARCH FOR JOY 2022

Edel Assanti 2021

Edel Assanti 2021

  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.

Home Fires : Edel Assanti

Home Fires : Edel Assanti

https://edelassanti.com/video/27-home-fires-13-vinca-petersen/

TJ Boulting

TJ Boulting

V&A Dundee 2021-22

V&A Dundee 2021-22

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…

Musée 2021

Musée 2021

Read article in Musée here

TRAX mag 2021

TRAX mag 2021

Read more in TRAX magazine

V&A : Clubs, Society & Joy

V&A : Clubs, Society & Joy

A Life Of Subversive Joy 2019/2021

A Life Of Subversive Joy 2019/2021

  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…

El Film 2020

El Film 2020

    

ELEPHANT 2020

ELEPHANT 2020

 

Martin Parr : Sofa Sessions

Martin Parr : Sofa Sessions

No System 1999/2020

No System 1999/2020

Photographs of the book, No System
(Steidl, 1999).

Apartamento 2020

Apartamento 2020

 

Tate Modern 2019

Tate Modern 2019

Saatchi Gallery – Sweet Harmony

Saatchi Gallery – Sweet Harmony

  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…

TURNER CONTEMPORARY 2019

TURNER CONTEMPORARY 2019

“Seaside Photographed” at Turner Contemporary, 2019.   Raver Car   Dungeness Rave   Norfolk Sleep

FT Magazine 2019

FT Magazine 2019

  Follow this link to original article    

Photoworks

Photoworks

    For the article on Photoworks follow this link.

Martin Parr Foundation 2019

Martin Parr Foundation 2019

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    

AnOther 2019

AnOther 2019

Link to full article including Gallery and YouTube links  

Liberty 2019

Liberty 2019

APERTURE Mag

APERTURE Mag

  For full article in APERTURE click here.

ID 2019

ID 2019

Vogue 2019

Vogue 2019

CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER 2019

CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER 2019

AnotherMan 2019

AnotherMan 2019

  Link to full article here  

Guardian – 2019

Guardian – 2019

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

SSAW 2019

SSAW 2019

Paul Stolper – ICA 2019

Paul Stolper – ICA 2019

Outerfocus Podcast 2019

Outerfocus Podcast 2019

To listen to a podcast I did for Outerfocus follow this link.  

Another 2018

Another 2018

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    

V&A

V&A

This is a link to the works held in the Victoria and Albert Museum permanent collection.

DAZED 2017

DAZED 2017

FUTURE FANTASY – Ditto 2017

FUTURE FANTASY – Ditto 2017

      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…

Hero 2017

Hero 2017

CLICK HERE FOR FULL INTERVIEW & IMAGES  

Forget Them issue 10 2017

Forget Them issue 10 2017

The September Issues 2017

The September Issues 2017

TRAVEL France 2017

TRAVEL France 2017

    

Deuce and a Quarter – IDEA 2018

Deuce and a Quarter – IDEA 2018

  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…

Horses & Carts 2015

Horses & Carts 2015

Photos of Roma, and other Romanians, and their horses, taken from the FYP bus.

Berlin/London Clubbing Exhibition 2017

Berlin/London Clubbing Exhibition 2017

Dazed curated projection – Prince Charles Club, Berlin. (To see Dazed article & film of slideshow follow this link…)  

AnotherMan 2017

AnotherMan 2017

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Aperture Magazine 2016

Aperture Magazine 2016

TO SEE WHOLE STORY & READ ARTICLE FOLLOW THIS LINK

Dilara Findikoglu – New York Times – Sept 2016

Dilara Findikoglu – New York Times – Sept 2016

New York Times Sept 2016 – to see whole story click here   dilara_lookbook_v20

i-D Magazine 2016

i-D Magazine 2016

Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.

AnOther / Dilara Findikoglu 2016

AnOther / Dilara Findikoglu 2016

Another Magazine. Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.

AnOther 2016

AnOther 2016

NIGHT SHADES, LONDON Styled by Ellie Grace Cumming

Flashback – December 2015

Flashback – December 2015

VORTIGERN, MARGATE ARE SHOWING A SELECTION OF VINTAGE PRINTS FROM THE BOOK “NO SYSTEM” AND BEYOND. OPENING NIGHT 5TH DECEMBER.  

True Photojournal  2015

True Photojournal 2015

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 – No System 2015

Dazed Digital – No System 2015

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

DR JOY AKA ARTNURSE+

DR JOY AKA ARTNURSE+

TO BOOK A DrJOY / ArtNurse+ CLINIC IN YOUR AREA CONTACT US VIA CONTACT FORM DoctorJoy+ and the Emergency. I am responding to an emergency, not only within myself but within our culture and society as a whole. WHEN DID JOY BECOME SUBVERSIVE? We have been stripped of so much of our joyousness and the…

Future Youth Project

Future Youth Project

Link to the FYP website containing all Petersen’s FYP photographic galleries & information.

Africa with a Bouncy Castle 2004

Africa with a Bouncy Castle 2004

A journey across West Africa taking a bouncy castle as a form of Laughter Aid.

Raves & Riots 1990-2004

Raves & Riots 1990-2004

Raves & Riots 1990-2004 – Description required

Convoy to Chernobyl 2000

Convoy to Chernobyl 2000

The first journey to Ukraine with volunteers and two 7.5 ton lorries full of aid…