American Family Portrait Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

A study, published in 2014 in the journal Crime & Delinquency, found that nearly half (49 percent) of African-American men and 40 percent of white men have been arrested by the age of 23. It occurred to me that just about any group photo in America probably has at least on person who has been arrested. Family photos, alumni photos, work photos; all of them probably have someone with an arrest record. I wanted to represent this hidden and common shared experience, so I collected 656 booking photos on a random basis and integrated them into a single montage wrapped in the American flag. This original digital art will be printed only once on fine art paper. Additional copies will not reproduced or sold in any form.