Vinca Petersen's new photo series on the Isle of Skye is "an invitation to imagine an alternative future"

Gem Fletcher met Vinca through a podcast invitation to write about No System. Vinca’s photographs capture intimacy in rave culture through everyday reparative gestures that cultivate unity, interdependence, and belonging. Hulala continues this focus with quieter, less audible and more meditative imagery, created with a camera approach that takes about one photo per day. The work centers on building a new sustainable home using straw bale methods, showing excavation, framing, and groups lifting and securing straw bales. The home is presented as a shared project rather than an individually owned space, reinforcing collective care and togetherness.

"What the book does is capture an irrepressible intimacy that often goes unseen in the retelling of rave culture. Vinca's photographs of Big Nick reading to the kids, Harry cooking dinner or Carol trying to sort out the living room are perhaps her most radical. They describe the reparative gestures that went on behind the scenes that cultivated a sense of unity, interdependence and belonging within the group."

"The works in Hulala (a rare Gaelic expression of good health) are 'quieter', than those in No System, both literally in audible terms, and more theoretically in the general cadence of life they depict. But the overall sensation and sentiment is the same: intimacy. Once again, you feel as though you're being given a precious window into Vinca's life, a view that feels less nosey, and more meditative. Maybe this is because the images are far from 'snapshot' in style, with the camera present at every waking second; at most, Vinca says she takes just one photo a day - led by the impulse to capture that very specific moment, and nothing more."

"The beating heart of the body of work is Vinca's building of a new home with the sustainable methods you'd find in Building with Straw Bales. Images show the process at various stages; a digger excavating foundations, wooden beams indicating the house's skeleton and a hoard of people inspecting, lifting and securing straw bales. The latter image is one that speaks to a core intention - the home wasn't to be one as we might typically know it, syphoned off for individual familial use, but a shared project and a"

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