In Seoul, Petra Collins Sets Her Teenage Bedroom Ablaze

In her first major museum retrospective, “fangirl,” the Canadian photographer and Instagram phenomenon Petra Collins takes over the Daelim Museum in Seoul with more than 500 works that chronicle her meteoric rise, from adolescent outsider to reluctant muse of a millennial aesthetic she helped define.

How did a dyslexic teenager from Toronto come to drape the world in her signature pastel haze and 35mm film grain? The answer unfolds across three floors of the Daelim Museum, nestled in Seoul’s fashionable Jongno district. From her early, sun-dapple...

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