Is no one else but LDN’s very own, the loveliest, nicest Saira Hunjan (who, just for the record, was in sang Bleu 0, remember?).

Your images will be up: Today.
Because I fuckin love them.

PS: Would you be so kind as to telling us who the tattoo artists are?

photography by Natalia David

Jeffrey has been consistently and faithfully sending me images and contributing to sang bleu since day one. I still owe Benedetta Rossi for introducing us.
A massive subject and interview with jeffrey is coming soon in the soon-to-be-launched “Online Features” section.
But before that, you might wanna have a look at http://www.jeffreykilmer.com/, or even better, buy “23%”, the book he just released.

and because it’s beautiful
found on rasha’s blog

“This thesis is an experimental work combining anthropology and photography in the form of a written text and photographic essay. I first discuss the practices of anthropology and photography and their usage as they developed from the 1800s to the present to place my work in context. The body of the thesis examines the rise in interest in the practice of tattooing in the United States and its implications for women. Women’s bodies serve as a site of social control through gendered appearance and idealized beauty standards. Tattooing is visual communication, written on the body, which is linked historically to deviance and remains stigmatized in the West. Tattoos on women, especially the “new” tattooing of the past ten years or so, are a form of resistance to gendered appearance standards and social control.”

Read the thesis by Melissa M. Forbis, Temple University, May 1994

“This one night
while i was lying on and tried to sleep
i felt this flash and saw this picture in combination
with sang bleu.
I just had to send you it.
I would like to donate it to you.
Erase or materialize it.

best
sarp “

I chose the latter

Sang Bleu II and III/IV featured Fergus aka Fergadelic, do I need to re-introduce him?
Ferg makes Tshirts and tattoos. Yesterday (or so) he sent me an email.

“Here’s a photo of my latest piece,
another ambidextorous (dont know how you spell that) job on my right forearm, just below the elbow.
Came out well, I think – just the taughtness of the skin makes such a mega difference when you’re doing home-made-wrong-handed pieces.

Love
From
Ferg.”

and here is the tattoo

cheers ferg

love from maxime