Petra Collins
Petra Collins

Success doesn't happen overnight.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I'm definitely a Sagittarius. I'm such a fire sign.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

If your story is being told by someone who doesn't really know it, it's not going to come out accurate. A lot of it has to do with context. Whoever's behind the camera or pen or whatever.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

People look the best when they feel the most comfortable, so I buy 10 of the same thing if I really like it.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the experience of a young woman and the challenges and turbulence we go through. All we had were teenage magazines like 'Cosmopolitan,' which are very one-sided and show an objectified view of women.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

Petra Collins
Petra Collins

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.