Shakedown Confidential

A tribute to the shakedown economy, where truth is negotiable and power writes the headline.

This collage pulls from pulp crime covers, tabloid hysteria, and old Hollywood scandal to capture a world built on leverage. Cameras, cops, gangsters, and starlets all playing the same game from different angles. Exposure, control, and spectacle collide. Everyone’s watching. No one’s clean.

Hand cut from vintage magazines, film posters, and found imagery, then reproduced to preserve every rip, shadow, and imperfect edge. Printed on heavyweight paper with a smooth matte finish that keeps the focus on texture, grit, and analog attitude. No frame included.

Made for operators, voyeurs, and anyone who knows the real story is always buried between the headlines.