“They That Matter” is a series of 33 mixed media portraits that Collins created over a seven year period as he experienced the events in the United States concerning the shooting of black men and women by police. Moved by a TIME magazine cover from April 20, 2015, he felt that these stories of these African American men and women needed to be told and that people should honestly take notice of these victims and what these events have to say about our society. Collins reflected back to an exhibition of his work that he created in the mid-1990’s, “All For The Cause” (now in the Frank Hale Center Collection at the Ohio State University) where he created 33 portraits of individuals who died during the civil rights movement. Many of those killed were never vindicated, and Collins realized that “the stories of the slain civil rights workers had many characteristics similar to the stories of victims who have experienced police violence.” In They That Matter, Collins re-creates individual shrines, just as he did in All For The Cause, illuminating each person who has lost their life; to show the humanity of the victims and that their lives mattered.

“Captured Moments'' is a series of photographs that Collins created over a period of forty years of people, places, and things, during his travels throughout the US, Africa, and Europe. Most of these photos were taken for reference for his drawings and paintings but Collins found that his passion for photography emerged as he began to value the aesthetics of the medium.