The act of observing and being observed, especially in regards to the photographic process, has long interested Anne Collier (b. 1970). Known for her use of appropriated imagery, the American photographer is drawn to the visual culture of pre-digital mass media, including record covers, vintage comics, magazine advertisements, posters and other printed ephemera. Her material is often romantic, sentimental or clichéd, recalling pop art paintings from the early 1960s by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein. Photographer uses an image from the pages of a 1950s romance comic. Addressing the theme of female vulnerability, it considers the role of the camera as a tool of both liberation and subjugation. The work recalls Collier’s 2017 series ‘Woman with a Camera’, comprising 80 found pictures of women taking photographs. In re-photographing such illustrations, Collier reinterprets them through a twenty-first century lens, interrogating their sexist undertones and drawing out tensions around power and gender.