Petra Collins has become something of an art world darling, using photography to capture dreamy and sensual scenes from the lives of female adolescence.
But that's only where she starts. She's also the founder of The Ardorous, an online art collective for emerging female artists, and her art was recently shown in a solo exhibition at Capricious 88 in New York City. Following that, she curated a hit art show of exclusively female artists coolly titled Pussy Pat.
She's is no stranger to ruffling feathers either. In 2013, controversy surrounded her American Apparel shirt design, which featured an illustration of a menstruating vagina and suggestive hand. Her response to Time magazine showed her sentiment: "I'm really interested in what is hidden from our culture. We are always repressing or hiding what is natural to a post-pubescent body. We're taught to hate our menstrual cycle and even to hide masturbation." Shortly after, her Instagram account with over 110K followers was deleted for sharing a photo of her own pubic hair emerging from her swimsuit.