Mug shots make for excellent artwork, especially vintage shots that are able to tell stories to those who stumble across them. Like Eric Daigh’s push-pin portraits, artist Joanne Arnett plays with a particularly sinister source and lightens the subject with the use of hand-woven fabric, allowing the images to breathe new life on the canvas as well in the photographs that depict them. Click through to see more of Arnett’s work, spotted via Feature Shoot.
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett
Image credit: Joanne Arnett