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No System

By Vinca Petersen

No System

By Vinca Petersen

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In her teens, Petersen moved to London and became involved in the alternative rave scene. Then in 1994, new UK laws made life deliberately hard for the squatters, travellers and free party promotors who were her friends. When many decided to leave for nomadic lives across mainland Europe, Petersen joined them. They lived out of trucks and buses, setting up free parties in the countryside near urban areas, bringing a little mayhem and magic wherever they went. “There was a real sense of belonging, of possibility,” she explains. “For me, it was all about a need for community. The parties were incidental, really, a way of earning money.” She remained on the road until just before her son was born in 2005, her camera a constant companion. Eventually, she edited a decade of pictures, postcards and ephemera into No System. Recording a scene that was suspicious of outsiders, her pictures are warm, intimate, complicit. But though her gaze is affectionate, it is also unflinching. Her pictures show that life on the margins is not always pretty, but mainly they capture something that has become increasingly unfamiliar, to all of us: people, playing freely. Ultimately, this is what Petersen’s work is about. It celebrates freedom, recording and reclaiming those brief moments of communal release we all experience in raves and football crowds, on protest marches and at festivals.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Publication Date:
2020
Publisher:
Self-published
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
1527265633
Minimum Reading Age:
6
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
932 g
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