ANNE COLLIER: I’m Anne Collier and you're looking at my work.
I have a very classic photography setup, very deliberate lighting, mimicking a lot of advertising photography. And we shoot the pictures that way, It's straightforward, It's like still life photography.
I collect things to photograph from various places. I used to go thrift store shopping a lot into the books and records section, and then started to realize that there were a lotta things there that I could use in my work. And the first things were record albums that had been graffitied on. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. Books and records and who you knew that knew a lot about music was really important.
Scale is really important to me. It was probably the first thing I noticed, that you could really play with in terms of adding a kind of subtle layer of meaning to something, or thinking about how not to just reiterate the original object.
If something’s beautiful and it starts out small, you can make it quite big and emphasize that. And it's another way to think about looking again at something.