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HULALA – ITS NICE THAT 2026
Vinca Petersen’s new photo series on the Isle of Skye is “an invitation to imagine an alternative future” Nearly three decades after her landmark series No System, the photographer uprooted everything she knew and moved to the Isle of Skye to build a new life for herself – both physically and metaphorically. A meditative new…
Peckham24 2026 – HULALA
This WIP exhibition was curated by Gem Fletcher as a first taste of the new body of work, HULALA.
HULALA
HULALA “For all the days I see you and all the days I don’t” A first glimpse of a new body of work made over the last four years on the Isle of Skye in Scotland whilst living and working in a Crofting Township and building a natural straw bale house with the help…
Frieze London 2025
I Installation shot by Tom Carter
Analog Magazine 2023
Collaboration with Blood Orange
Skye Studio Build 2024-5
In 2022 I was on the cusp of turning 50, my son had turned 18 and left school, and my long-term relationship ended. I was free to make choices based on my own desires. I found myself facing one of those rare opportunities when you can choose to completely change the direction of your life. …
Raves and Riots Constellation FE25
At Fotografia Europea 2025, working alongside Luce Lebart, Petersen created her third major constellation piece Raves and Riots Constellation, in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The room also featured vitrines of original diaries with audible transcripts, her seating piece Come Sit Down –originally shown at V&A Scotland, and her collaborative film 23 Teknivals.
Matt Maltese 2025
TIMELINE OF A RAVER 2022-2026
TIMELINE OF A RAVER Currently this piece is touring with the Goethe Institute in the Techno Worlds exhibition. Having been around Europe, South America and North America during 2022-24, the show is currently touring Asia for 2025.
Me, Us and Dogs, EDEL ASSANTI 2023
Installation shots by Tom Carter
V&A New Photography Gallery 2023-25
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
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
River Conversation in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
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…
Female Radical Joy : UNIT
SOCIAL HONEY NGCA 2022
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
https://edelassanti.com/video/27-home-fires-13-vinca-petersen/
TJ Boulting
Musée 2021
Read article in Musée here
TRAX mag 2021
Read more in TRAX magazine
V&A : Clubs, Society & Joy
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
ELEPHANT 2020
Martin Parr : Sofa Sessions
No System 1999/2020
Photographs of the book, No System
(Steidl, 1999).
Apartamento 2020
Tate Modern 2019
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
“Seaside Photographed” at Turner Contemporary, 2019. Raver Car Dungeness Rave Norfolk Sleep
FT Magazine 2019
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Photoworks
For the article on Photoworks follow this link.
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
Link to full article including Gallery and YouTube links
Liberty 2019
APERTURE Mag
For full article in APERTURE click here.
ID 2019
Vogue 2019
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER 2019
AnotherMan 2019
Link to full article here
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
Paul Stolper – ICA 2019
Outerfocus Podcast 2019
To listen to a podcast I did for Outerfocus follow this link.
Another 2018
https://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
DAZED 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
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Forget Them issue 10 2017
The September Issues 2017
TRAVEL France 2017
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
Photos of Roma, and other Romanians, and their horses, taken from the FYP bus.
Berlin/London Clubbing Exhibition 2017
Dazed curated projection – Prince Charles Club, Berlin. (To see Dazed article & film of slideshow follow this link…)
AnotherMan 2017
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Aperture Magazine 2016
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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
Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.
AnOther / Dilara Findikoglu 2016
Another Magazine. Clothes Dilara Findikoglu, Styling Ellie Grace Cumming, Art Direction Ben Freeman.
AnOther 2016
NIGHT SHADES, LONDON Styled by Ellie Grace Cumming
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
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 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+
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 2010-2025
Link to the FYP website containing all Petersen’s FYP photographic galleries & information.
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 – Description required
Rave film – 23 Teknivals
Convoy to Chernobyl 2000
The first journey to Ukraine with volunteers and two 7.5 ton lorries full of aid…