Petra Collins
| Petra Collins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 21, 1992 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Fashion photography, artist, fashion design, directing |
| Website | http://www.petracollins.com/ |
Petra Collins (born December 21, 1992) is a Canadian artist and photographer from Toronto, Canada.
Petra grew up in Toronto where she attended Rosedale Heights School of the Arts. It was at Rosedale at the age of 15, Collins began practicing the art of photography. Collins currently attends Ontario College of Art and Design.
Collins began taking pictures in high school. She met Richard Kern while assisting him on a shoot, and he became her mentor. Simultaneously, Collins became a frequent subject of photographer Ryan McGinley, and would go on to become one of his proteges. Collins began venturing into the art world, appearing in shows that would feature her own work and her curating abilities implementing her art collective, The Ardorous. Around the same time as Collins's success in the art world, her Instagram account was shut-down after the artist chose to post a photo of herself unwaxed in a bikini. She would speak out against the hypocrisy in what was permitted when depicting the female body in an essay for The Huffington Post, which would go viral and become a major feminist moment in 2013. In 2014, Collins' first solo exhibition was hosted at the Capricious 88 Gallery in New York, that being "Discharge", her photo series spanning between 2008 and 2014, from ages 15-21. "Discharge" went on to push the narrative of a more authentic view of girlhood and womanhood that her controversial Instagram bikini shot had begun. Collins also went on to publish the photo series as a book with Capricious Publishing in 2014.
Collins has been featured and curated over a dozen shows since 2011, spanning from galleries in New York to Miami's Art Basel to shows at San Francisco's Evergold Projects in conjunction with SFAQ. She is mostly known for pioneering a distinct and colorful aesthetic, a signature found in her photographic work.
Collins is a frequent editorial photographer for such publications as Vogue,Purple Magazine, i-D Magazine, Wonderland Magazine, Dazed & Confused, L'Officiel, Elle, and Love Magazine. She has photographed campaigns for brands such as Levi's, Adidas, Cos, Calvin Klein, and Stella McCartney.
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