Hello, I'm Dominique Collin.

Born in Brussels and shaped by a multicultural upbringing, I developed an early fascination with aesthetics, subcultures, and the world beyond convention. My years in Africa expanded that perspective, exposing me to new cultures, landscapes, and ways of living while cultivating a lifelong spirit of exploration and independence. I studied fashion in Brussels before moving to Los Angeles in my early twenties—a city that felt instinctively like home. Drawn to its collision of cultures, creative freedom, and unapologetic individuality, I found in Los Angeles a place where the unconventional could thrive. After two decades working in fashion, I returned to the city with a deeper understanding of design, craftsmanship, and the power of visual storytelling. As an immigrant navigating the complexities of belonging and assimilation, I became increasingly drawn to creative expression as a way to process the tension between identity, place, and conformity. My artistic practice emerges from that tension. Influenced by California’s skate, surf, punk, and street cultures, as well as the raw beauty and contradictions of Los Angeles, my work explores rebellion, impermanence, identity, and the overlooked moments of everyday life. Photography, design, and mixed media become tools for documenting what exists at the edges—people, places, and fragments of a city that are often seen but rarely examined. There is an inherent tension between beauty and decay, freedom and alienation, nostalgia and resistance. My work is ultimately a refusal to accept the ordinary as inevitable. It is an ongoing search for authenticity in a world increasingly shaped by conformity, consumption, and repetition—an attempt to turn lived experience into something visceral, imperfect, and unapologetically real.