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Vinca Petersen

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A Photographic Life

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In episode 96 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering photography's need to be at the centre of the creative arts, setting up collaborative collectives, and the positive creative aspects of difficulty!Plus this week photographer Vinca Peterson takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’Vinca Petersen got her first camera at the age of seven or eight. In 1990, age 17 she moved to London, telling her parents she was going to art school. Instead, she moved into a squat, and got involved in alternative politics as well as the rave/free party scene, occasionally working as a model in fashion spreads and music videos. Vinca met the photographer Corinne Day, who became a mentor of sorts, occasionally giving her cameras, film, and confidence to continue taking her pictures. She adopted a nomadic lifestyle travelling Europe, living in trucks until her son was born in 2005. Throughout, this time she took photographs, eventually collecting them into a book, No System published by Steidl in 1999 and reissued in 2019, when it was included in one of the first ever displays of photo books at Tate Modern, London. In 2010, Petersen created Future Youth Project, working with children in Thanet, Kent and in the Ukraine, where provision for children with learning difficulties has been limited. Her alter ego ArtNurse, popped up at the 2010 Paris Photo festival, Arles Photo and Brighton Photo Fringe dispensing gold glitter and administering vodka shots by syringe as well as dancing with strangers and selling postcards to raise funds for FYP. Before FYP, she persuaded the designer and founder of  the fashion brand Maharishi, Hardy Blechman, to design and donate a monumental inflatable that she took to orphanages and schools through Europe, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Romania and Ukraine. Recent photo books include Future Fantasy examining her earliest years during the second summer of love, and Deuce and a Quarter, created during a road trip across the American South made with three girlfriends. Vinca has participated in multiple group exhibitions and solo exhibitions of images and this year her work will be exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Petersen has never worked to commission. https://vincapetersen.comIf you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcastYou can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-PodcastGrant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&amp;t=3915s.© Grant Scott 2020

In episode 96 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering photography's need to be at the centre of the creative arts, setting up collaborative collectives, and the positive creative aspects of difficulty! Plus this week photographer Vinca Peterson takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’ Vinca Petersen got her first camera at the age of seven or eight. In 1990, age 17 she moved to London, telling her parents she was going to art school. Instead, she moved into a squat, and got involved in alternative politics as well as the rave/free party scene, occasionally working as a model in fashion spreads and music videos. Vinca met the photographer Corinne Day, who became a mentor of sorts, occasionally giving her cameras, film, and confidence to continue taking her pictures. She adopted a nomadic lifestyle travelling Europe, living in trucks until her son was born in 2005. Throughout, this time she took photographs, eventually collecting them into a book, No System published by Steidl in 1999 and reissued in 2019, when it was included in one of the first ever displays of photo books at Tate Modern, London. In 2010, Petersen created Future Youth Project, working with children in Thanet, Kent and in the Ukraine, where provision for children with learning difficulties has been limited. Her alter ego ArtNurse, popped up at the 2010 Paris Photo festival, Arles Photo and Brighton Photo Fringe dispensing gold glitter and administering vodka shots by syringe as well as dancing with strangers and selling postcards to raise funds for FYP. Before FYP, she persuaded the designer and founder of  the fashion brand Maharishi, Hardy Blechman, to design and donate a monumental inflatable that she took to orphanages and schools through Europe, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Romania and Ukraine. Recent photo books include Future Fantasy examining her earliest years during the second summer of love, and Deuce and a Quarter, created during a road trip across the American South made with three girlfriends. Vinca has participated in multiple group exhibitions and solo exhibitions of images and this year her work will be exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Petersen has never worked to commission. <a href="https://vincapetersen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://vincapetersen.com</a> If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: <a href="http://www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast</a> You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud <a href="https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto</a> on iTunes <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701</a> on Player FM <a href="https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life</a> and Podbean <a href="http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast</a> Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&amp;t=3915s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&amp;t=3915s</a>. © Grant Scott 2020

A Photographic Life - 96: Plus Vinca Petersen

This episode's guest is Vinca Petersen.  Vinca is a photographer, installation, multimedia and performance artist whose work emerges from her deep social and political engagement with under represented communities to give them voice and recognition.  Her photobooks documenting subcultures have been exhibited in the likes of the Tate Modern and in 2010 she created the Future Youth Project that takes diverse groups of volunteers to the Ukraine to help creatively enrich a group of disabled men.  Her alter-ego Dr Joy is a healer who engages the public in serious conversations about over-seriousness.  Recorded at House of St Barnabus, Soho, London.Support the show

This episode's guest is Vinca Petersen.  Vinca is a photographer, installation, multimedia and performance artist whose work emerges from her deep social and political engagement with under represented communities to give them voice and recognition.  Her photobooks documenting subcultures have been exhibited in the likes of the Tate Modern and in 2010 she created the Future Youth Project that takes diverse groups of volunteers to the Ukraine to help creatively enrich a group of disabled men.  Her alter-ego Dr Joy is a healer who engages the public in serious conversations about over-seriousness.  Recorded at House of St Barnabus, Soho, London.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/stevexoh" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

Episode 80: Vinca Petersen

I recently came across Vinca’s photography (No System) and was instantly connected to a time, and a scene, that I was almost part of. Our conversation cements the fact that Vinca is as genuine as her photographs, her experiences are real, and her photographs of not just the rave scene, but life itself, are as personal as any other photographer or artist I’ve ever seen. ‘We’re not free, the way society is set up now. So my way of feeling free is to make fun, to play. It’s like jesting. I think that’s been taken away from images of people, and images of women especially. I don’t often see images of women looking comfortable and happy, in a non-extreme way. I want my pictures to be edgy and interesting, but people don’t have that much fun any more. So joy, and fun. That’s what’s important.’ - Vinca PerersenVinca tells us about the beginnings of the Rave scene in the UK, the Criminal Justice Bill that put a stop to it, and travelling with sound systems in Europe, among many other things.  The Martin Parr Foundation has acquired a copy of No System, including dummy book, originally published by Steidl, and she has been featured in Tate Modern, I-D, Hero and Aperture to name but a few. 2020 sees a large exhibition in Sunderland (which I’m pretty excited about) and a reissue of No System is imminent. We hope that you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.This weeks history of photography was non-existent, but we were going to look at, Christina Broom.Christina was a Scottish photographer, and credited as "the UK's first female press photographerChristina was appointed official photographer to the Household Division from 1904 to 1939 and had a darkroom in the Chelsea Barracks; she also took many photographs of local scenes, including those at the Palace, as well as The Boat Race and Suffragette marches.Collections of her photographs are held at the Museum of London, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, London, the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.......Full show notes - https://www.outerfocuspodcast.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/outerfocuspodcast)

I recently came across <a href="https://vincapetersen.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vinca’s</a> photography (<a href="https://vincapetersen.com/no-system-the-book/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No System</a>) and was instantly connected to a time, and a scene, that I was almost part of. Our conversation cements the fact that Vinca is as genuine as her photographs, her experiences are real, and her photographs of not just the rave scene, but life itself, are as personal as any other photographer or artist I’ve ever seen. ‘We’re not free, the way society is set up now. So my way of feeling free is to make fun, to play. It’s like jesting. I think that’s been taken away from images of people, and images of women especially. I don’t often see images of women looking comfortable and happy, in a non-extreme way. I want my pictures to be edgy and interesting, but people don’t have that much fun any more. So joy, and fun. That’s what’s important.’ - <a href="https://vincapetersen.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vinca Perersen</a>Vinca tells us about the beginnings of the Rave scene in the UK, the Criminal Justice Bill that put a stop to it, and travelling with sound systems in Europe, among many other things.  <a href="https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Martin Parr Foundation</a> has acquired a copy of No System, including dummy book, originally published by <a href="https://steidl.de/Books/Photography-0104064348.html?chunk=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steidl</a>, and she has been featured in <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/artist-and-society/diaristic-photography-and-photobook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a>, <a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I-D</a>, <a href="http://hero-magazine.com/article/110725/vinca-petersen-reminisces-about-good-times-with-corinne-day-in-90s-london/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hero</a> and <a href="https://aperture.org/blog/system/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aperture</a> to name but a few. 2020 sees a large exhibition in Sunderland (which I’m pretty excited about) and a reissue of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/No-System-619208694841968/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No System</a> is imminent. We hope that you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.This weeks history of photography was non-existent, but we were going to look at, <a href="https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/march-women-photographing-suffragettes-broom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Broom</a>.Christina was a Scottish photographer, and credited as "the UK's first female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_photographer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">press photographer</a>Christina was appointed official photographer to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_Division" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Household Division</a> from 1904 to 1939 and had a darkroom in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Barracks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chelsea Barracks</a>; she also took many photographs of local scenes, including those at the Palace, as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Race" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Boat Race</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Suffragette</a> marches.Collections of her photographs are held at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_London" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Museum of London</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(London)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Portrait Gallery</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Imperial War Museum</a>, London, the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh....... Full show notes - <a href="https://www.outerfocuspodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.outerfocuspodcast.com</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/outerfocuspodcast" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/outerfocuspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/outerfocuspodcast</a>)

Outerfocus 36 - Vinca Petersen