Petra Collins

“People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about o...”

“With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.”

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

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

“I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.”

“I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being 'female' meant I couldn't be that - I couldn't be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak.”

“My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked retail jobs and raised my sister and me while learning Eng...”

“Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense.”

“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 wa...”

“I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people.”

“I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger sister and her friends all through high school.”