Not much time to be blogging! The gallery space is beautiful, and we are very happy with the layout! We are here showing, among others, works by Elisabeth Llach, Duane PItre, Jeanne-Salomé Rochat and HENRY DELETRA HANNA. Alongside, we have Dan Sinnes tattooing here as well. The whole thing is really impressive. Happy


More to come.

Johann and I shot a fashion story in Zürich today and we got to meet Anne (stylist intern) and Sandra (model).
I thought their tattoos were nice…

Anne:

Sandra:

Some people tell it, some people live it.
These ones live it.
And have beautiful and poetic tattoos.
And a blog too…

Today I feel I’ve posted more blogs about blogs than usually…
(Maybe it’s true.)

Tattooing is a culture that is based on offering a service. It feeds on the principle of exchange, it can not be totally underground and at the same time, for this very reason, it knows how to protect its members, its actors, its History, its stories and its legends. The so called—but what else to call it?—”tattoo culture” is important nowadays because entertainment and mainstream culture are looking for substance. Substance is what they sell. And substance is some thing the Tattoo Culture has, and knows how to preserve. Additionally, this very substance is not materialized as dusty clay statuettes, it is very live human beings. Those who testify by their very existence for the existence of different times, and other legends our society ended up recycling so many times it had people wonder if they ever really existed. Namely, the Hippy movement, the Biker culture, the sailors, the traditional gangsters, outlaws or lo-lives of all kind. Living in the tattoo culture, you get to meet some of these legends, which is always a highly emotional moment.

Recently I met Lal Hardy. In spite of his young age (for a legend), Lal is a living memory for British (and international) tattooing. His shop in greater London is a myth, but not a loud/public myth, a real myth for those who know. Lal himself wears an amazing collection of tattoos from the 80′s and 90′s (among those, a backpiece by Filip Leu). Last but not least, Lal was a lose friend to the late Jason Saga (Rest in Peace).

Dropped my digital camera which means  it’s not great for detail but regardless here’s Laura Kenner from Florida (&Profile London) and her girl jump roping with her shadow from Dali’s Alice in Wonderland watercolour series and the Sheep in a Box from The Little Prince. Very cool.

hand-tattooed by Adam Sage of brighton (for those who remember, adam was featured in issue zero in the same shoot as Thomas Thomas formerly known as French Thomas).

Alistair’s new crow by Leanne Elliott.