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" 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. "

Petra Collins

People

Time

Love

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" When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Petra Collins

Age

Angry

" I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long process. "

" I've always been fascinated by the desert. "

" Putting your work out there is scary! "

" I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something. "

" When I was growing up, my parents would apologize when we didn't have enough money for something. I'd always tell them that it was O.K. and that I had learned to work hard because of them. "

" I consider myself endlessly lucky to have access to the Internet and technology. Through it, I've found myself and have been able to join a new discourse of females, young and old, who strive to change the way we look and treat ourselves. "

" I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch. "

Petra Collins

You

Angry

" Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an audience that was never there before. "

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

" On film, you really have to focus on what you're looking at. You're imprinting a physical image. "

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

" It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you. "

" I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do that. It's really hard for, I guess, every woman to not internalize misogyny. I just learned as I went on how to best capture my subjects without objectifying them. "

" It's hard for every girl to accept their body. This is something that I try to work on every day to set a good example. "

" I'm so pro-selfie because I think it's a tool that allows girls to create images of their own and of themselves. "

" When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist. "

Petra Collins

Women

Feel

" My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in. "

" 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. "

" 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

Challenges

Woman

" 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 or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen. "

" I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.' "

" Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older. "

" We have this weird beauty standard where women, like, shouldn't grow: what we think is feminine is often what is also pre-pubescent. "

" 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. "

" When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc. "

" I approach beauty the same way I approach clothing - I think people should do whatever to themselves to make them feel more comfortable in their skin. "