Disney stars can’t spread their wings on their own. For her latest, eye-catching project, Selena Gomez teamed up with Petra Collins, who served as the director for the music video for “Fetish.” But before dissecting the video, let’s take a closer look at the woman behind the camera.
Collins is a 24-year-old Canadian who refers to herself as “an artist/curator living and working in New York” on her professional website, and her photographs have sparked controversy and discussions about femininity, body image, and the female gaze.In 2013, Collins wrote an essay for Oyster magazine after she claimed Instagram deleted her account when she posted a photo of herself wearing a swimsuit that showed her public hair. Although Collins meant for the photo to be a comment on how “unaltered women are seen as unacceptable” and spur discussion about the issue, the photographer also said that she never expected to have her body regulated on social media:
Collins’ whimsical, colorful photographs have been shown everywhere from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to Art Basel in Miami. The New Yorker describes Collins’ aesthetic as “moody, inward moments that emphasize [her subject’s] interiority…
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