I won't go into the depravity of making cash on other's misfortunes. But I will say is that your Facebook picture really shouldn't look like a mug shot. I'd think that would be a first rule about pics on Facebook but obviously others feel differently.

anyone wanna play devils advocate with the "rap" thing? I couldn't come up with anything. Its probably just dumb like Graves already asserted. Allot of the cooler photos have an early 90s vibe; would the rap reference make more sense in that context? great tip/find/post. This is what I pay you for.

I have a basic question about these: the photos themselves are not the rights to the photos. You can buy the actual photos, but the rights to the photos, including all reproduction rights, stay with the photographer, not the subject or the possessor, unless he gives them up. So who owns those rights? If some gallery owner or other connected white person is reproducing these photos for gain, where's the person who shot them in all this? Presumably still in jail?

I'm a little worried that I'm seeing the underclass used as fodder for the overclass's art project here. Maybe I'm behind the curve on this.

Mugshots (property of the public) are already a topic of discussion, because of the extortion sites that publish them and only take them down upon payment of $500, which is straight-up profiteering on other people's misery. Some of those people on the Induplo site are in tears; all of them are looking at their lives in ruins. Entertaining, huh?

We already treat poor people like not-very-valuable possessions enough in our society. Don't we?

"All art is exploitation." Sherman Alexie