@petrafcollins โ work has big sister energy. Not just the photographs of her actual sister and childhood friends that made her an internet legend and art world darling, but of the generation of pop divas (Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, Addison Rae, to name a few).
For the digital cover of i-D and the release of her new book โStar,โ Collins trains her lens on her life, opening up to i-D Editor-in-Chief Thom Bettridge about girlhood, horror, and choosing happiness.
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Photography by @petrafcollins@annaballins
Written by @thomthomclub
Fashion Director: @clare_byrne
Hair: @evaniefrausto
Makeup: @alisa_yasuda
Video Director: @brooketjames
DP: @raybee8
Video Editor: @sarahloukiernan
Set Design: @niamhannigan
Production: @perfectprojects_
STAR โญ๏ธ pre-order available now! We shot this like a movie thank you to all that worked on it with me. ๐
Fictional popstars and their fans- in tales of love and dangerous obsession. This book is a cinematic journey of the performers as seen through the eyes of their fans and stalkers, images of performances, rescues, and confrontations, interspersed with letters, conversations, and diary entries.
๐UNDER THE COVER WITH PETRA COLLINS ๐ฉท Discover the books and images that have informed @petrafcollins unique visual language and the making of her newly published photo book STAR!
Revisiting the books that captured her imagination as a teenager, like the Corinne Day photos from the set of The Virgin Suicides and the 1977 idol book dedicated to The Runaways, Collins speaks to how discovering these images on Tumblr opened up an entirely new visual universe to her.
Behind the scenes of STAR, she reflects on the spectacle of fame and how it can feel both intoxicating and suffocating. Drawing inspiration from her own work with pop stars alongside these early references, her approach to photography is distinctly cinematic, weaving narrative, mood, and costuming as though composing scenes from a non-existent film.
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