Vinca Petersen

Vinca Petersen (born c. 1973)[1][2] is a British photographer and artist, based in Ramsgate. Her photography book No System documents her life in the 1990s travelling around Europe with sound systems, putting on free parties. Petersen's work has been shown in group exhibitions at Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary and Saatchi Gallery, and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Life and work

Petersen was born in Seoul, South Korea.[1] She lived in Romania and Sweden and then moved to the UK with her family at age six.[1] She started taking photographs at about age 7.[3] In 1989 she left home, aged seventeen, and moved into a squat in London.[2][4] She worked as a model, appearaning in i-D and The Face.[1]

In 1994 Petersen bought a campervan.[1] Between then and 2004, she travelled around Europe with various sound systems, putting on free parties.[1] She occasionally returned to London for modeling work.[1] While on the road she made diaristic photographs, encouraged by her friend the photographer Corinne Day.[1][2] Photographs from this period in the 1990s were collected in the book No System (1999).[2][3][5][6] The work is distinctive for its proximity to the subject; photography by people within the rave scene at the time was uncommon, with cameras discouraged due to the illegal nature of some activities.[4][7]

As of 2020 she is based in Ramsgate,[1] where she co-founded a social art charity, Future Youth Project (FYP).[8]

Publications
  • No System. Göttingen: Steidl, 1999. Photographs, letters, diary entries and notes by Petersen. Edited by Michael Mack. ISBN 9783882436457.
    • London: Mack, 2020. ISBN 978-1527265639.
  • Future Fantasy. London: Ditto, 2017. Photographs, flyers, letters and other ephemera by Petersen, with photographic contributions by Corinne Day, and artwork by Ben Ditto.[7][9]
    • London: Ditto, 2019. Edition of 1150 copies.[10]
  • Deuce and a Quarter. London: IDEA, 2018. Photographs by Petersen.[11] Edition of 1000 copies.[12]

Group exhibitions

Collections

Petersen's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References
  1. "A candid look at the '90s rave scene through the eyes of a female photographer". Vogue India. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  2. Dunn, Frankie (15 July 2019). "witness the unseen side of 90s rave culture". i-D. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  3. Hutton, Belle (14 May 2020). "The Story of Vinca Petersen's Cult (and Now Re-Published) Book, No System". AnOther. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  4. Garratt, Sheryl (8 September 2016). "Meet the photographer who chronicled the raves of '90s-era Europe". Aperture Foundation NY. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  5. Adams, Tim (26 July 2020). "The big picture: a pre-millennium party animal". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  6. "Capturing ten years of Europe's illegal raves". Dazed. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  7. Marie Healy, Claire (7 December 2017). "Unseen, unreal moments from the diaries of a 90s raver". Dazed. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  8. Petersen, Vinca. "Vinca Petersen: the roads that made me". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  9. "Modelling, Raving and Squatting: Vinca Petersen's Diary of the 1990s". AnotherMan. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  10. "Future Fantasy". Ditto. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  11. "Four Women and a 'Deuce and a Quarter': A 1999 Roadtrip, in Photographs". AnOther. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  12. "Vinca Petersen Deuce and a Quarter". IDEA Store. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  13. ""You Were Really Part of Something": Vinca Petersen Remembers the Rave Days". AnOther. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  14. "Search the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
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