Jan 9

Jan 9 The untold story behind the "father of contemporary body modification" is one of racial exploitation

This article takes a critical look at the problematic elements permeating Musafar's legacy of prescribing "primitiveness" for Western malaise.

Feb 13

Feb 13 “To a lot of people my very existence is a provocation”—meet Parma Ham: artist, agitator, and curator of London’s Wraith night

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Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body.

Nov 12

Nov 12 Entangled and disembodied: a neuroqueer exploration of posthumanism and tattoo

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(First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19) Alison Bennett is a neuroqueer artist, activist, and academic that explores the complex world of autistic embodiment and neuroqueer skin.

Jun 12

Jun 12 Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks thoughtfully captures the endurance of tattoo and tradition

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(Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s Tatau alongside the tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.

Jun 12

Jun 12 Tools for torture: meet the dominatrix using tattoo and body modification experts as instruments for pain

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(Published in VICE 12/06/2019) Feris Tergo sessions are designed to explore the murky and macabre space between what unites tattoo, body modification and BDSM.

Jan 4

Jan 4 Serious technique paired with childlike wonderment: inside the pencil case of Miriam Frank

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(First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Profile: Miriam Frank

Jan 4

Jan 4 Stories of the human condition told through the dilated pupils of Expanded Eye

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(First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Profile: Expanded Eye

Jan 4

Jan 4 Rebels With a Cause: The Indomitable Activism of Indomito

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(First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Profile: Indomito

Jan 4

Jan 4 The violent ingenuity of Kelly Violet: A testament to finding what you love and letting it kill you

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(First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Profile: Kelly Violet

Nov 14

Nov 14 Portraits of South Africa's Bloodiest Prison Gang: The Number

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(Published in VICE 14/11/2018) Photojournalist Luke Daniels used his friendship with one high-ranking insider to photograph members of The Number

Apr 15

Apr 15 Radical Physiognomies: Meet two tattooists taking their face tattoos to the next level

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London-based tattooist Eli and Polish-born tattooist Adam Curly share their respective heavy blackwork journeys.

(NSFW / TW) “Today, I will suffer for your art”: meet the nihilist going beyond the intersection of kink and body modification to produce traumatic works of art

Mar 19

Mar 19 (NSFW / TW) “Today, I will suffer for your art”: meet the nihilist going beyond the intersection of kink and body modification to produce traumatic works of art

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(abridged version published in VICE, 19/03/18) JILF, a self-described nihilist and practising dominatrix, orchestrates painful and subversive acts with her partners with the aim of eliciting trauma and embracing disgust.

Dec 13

Dec 13 From transgressive folk-art to one of MoMA’s most influential “items” of fashion shaping the 20th and 21st centuries

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(Published in DAZED & CONFUSED, 13/12/17) I speak to the L.A artist, Roxx, about MoMA's recent exhibition, Items: Is Fashion Modern?

Nov 24

Nov 24 Brutal Black Project Participant Interviews: "My face was double its size, I had black eyes like I was beaten"

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I spoke to participants of Brutal Black about why they chose to engage with amplified tattoo pain.

Sep 12

Sep 12 Forever More: The New Tattoo

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Read extracts from my articles featured in FOREVER MORE

May 12

May 12 Inkspector: The Forensic Analysis of Tattoos and Ink

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(First published in INKED, issue 45) When forensic inquiry is applied to tattoos, it can assist in the identification or capture of criminals or missing persons.

May 1

May 1 Hannah Pixie Snow and Guy Le Tatooer launch their new grass roots charity project, Love Shakthi Om

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(Published in Skin Deep UK) Love Shakthi Om, to be launched in the first week of May, will produce limited works of art to be sold with profits donated to charity.

Apr 25

Apr 25 Introducing the Brutal Black Project: “No Compassion. No Scruples. No Empathy.” This is where mandalas come to die

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(VICE online 25/04/17) This is one of the most brutal experiences one can imagine in the field of tattooing, where wills are either broken or solidified. This is the Brutal Black Project, and they’ll “ruin your life”.

Mar 17

Mar 17 Alice in Tattooland

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Alice Snape, the editor of Things&Ink, talks about her journey as an independent publisher of a female-friendly tattoo culture publication.

Mar 4

Mar 4 A body-modifying ‘hybrid human’ on their life and tattoo power

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(Abridged version first published in DAZED & CONFUSED magazine, 03/03/17) Touka Voodoo has actively used body art and modification to transcend the notion of binaries.

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