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Billed variously as “Miss Technicolor” and “The Classy Lassy with the Tattooed Chassis,” the Australian Cindy Ray toured in Australia and New Zealand in the early sixites, then learned to tattoo and has been working ever since. Now seventy, she goes by her birth name, Bev Nicholas, and works weekends at Moving Pictures Tattoo Studio, near Melbourne, where she has been tattooing for over forty years. Photograph courtesy of Randy Johnson.
From A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Maria Lokke, click through and check it out, there’s a heap more fantastic photos, loving Mildred Hull and Betty Broadbent. There’s an Age article on dear Bev here too.
Sergei Vasiliev
Taken between 1989 and 1993, Sergei Vasiliev’s photographs of Soviet prisoners document the secret code language of criminals in the USSR, evidence of a gritty spirit of picaresque resistance within a violently repressive culture.
I found an russian tatt art tumblr if you’re keen.
Dr Lakra
Untitled, 2009
Ink on Vintage Lithograph, 10.9 × 18 cm
I’ve been keen on this guy for a little while now, here’s a profile on him
Also he’s got to have outdone Andres Serrano, he’s got an Ed Hardy chest tattoo of demons dancing around and pissing on Christ’s face. Hot damn.
Wiki: Olive Oatman (1837 – March 20, 1903) was a woman from Illinois who was famously abducted by a Native American tribe (likely the Yavapai people), then sold to another tribe (the Mohave people). She ultimately regained her freedom five years later. The story resonated in the media, partly owing to the prominent blue tattooing of Oatman’s face by her captors.
Click here to check out more of La Boite Verte’s great photo mystery challenges
Season two of Tattoo age is coming up September 12th
Prints from Ink Dots Black Spots are up for sale at Dangerfork.
Julian Fletcher’s is sold out though. No Dice.
Hey Kids don’t forget to come down to the Vic tomorrow evening to help Sime Moody smash cancer with Ink Spots Black Dots.
AND NO it’s the bad assed cancer not the star sign.
This is Adrian Krygsman’s Battle Royal that I posted a little while ago.
Good on Sime and the boys/girls for supporting the Vic Cancer Council with Ink Dots Black Spots
Instagram tag’s here
A gang member and inmate poses for a photograph inside the jail in Quetzaltepeque, El Salvador, on May 2, 2012. Rival Salvadoran gangs announced an expansion of the terms of a truce as the Central American country grapples with a plague of violent crime that threatens to sweep the nation. Photo: Ulises Rodriguez
Artist Vincent Myers tattoos Wendy, age 72, in his shop in Finksburg, Maryland, on March 21, 2012. “Vinnie” Myers specializes in tattooing nipples and areolas onto women who have undergone breast cancer surgery. Using precisely mixed pigments, he creates a perfect 3-D illusion of the real thing, and in doing so, enables women who have undergone mastectomies to feel more like women once again. On average, it takes Myers two hours to complete his work, during which he will determine the color and size of the areolas of each patient. Photo: Fabienne Faur/AFP/Getty Images
Contestant Yoshi shows off the back of his full-body tattoo to judges at the National Tattoo Association Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 13, 2012. Yoshi, from Japan, was tattooed by Horiyoshi III and is a multi-award winning contestant in the world of full-body tattoos. In Cincinnati he won third place in the “Best Tattooed Male” category. Picture taken April 13, 2012. Photo: Jason Reed
InFocus takes a look at Tattooing all over the world.
Check out Adrian’s Battle Royal for the Ink Dots & Black Spots exhibition coming up in August. Hey Adrian would it be possible to get a back piece of one of these but instead of a dragon, a snake and a turkey, have rock, paper and scissors all going at each other?
