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Sans Patrie founder Delphin Musquet set to release first collection
Sans Patrie founder Delphin Musquet set to release first collection

Later this week, Delphin Musquet will release the first items of his Sans Patrie fashion line realising a dream years in the making and unifying his business ventures.  Musquet, the founder and creative director of the Shoreditch, London, tattoo studio of the same name, has hired Farhad Hakim to help design the collection.  Hakim has

Tiny Zaps set to bring ‘coffee card culture’ to tattooing
Tiny Zaps set to bring ‘coffee card culture’ to tattooing

Bandit Studio’s Bruno Levy has a new venture offering cheap tattoos with big customer rewards Tiny Zaps looks set to disrupt tattooing in a major way in the coming months with a business model that not only puts customers first – but rewards them in a way the industry never has. The idea –  from

RIP Sally
RIP Sally

Sally looks dead, but instead of a morgue the artist lays rigid, chained away, in a white-walled room concealed behind a shop selling houseplants and botanicals in southeast London.

Servadio The Shaman
Servadio The Shaman

On a massage table he laid, rigid as a corpse, dressed only in chinos and trainers as a camera hovered above his eye-line, focused on his chest. A shoji screen shielded his feet as a student-flat party of scenesters in black satin, denim, leather and lace, gathered around his neck, swilling wine from disposal cups, eager for the composer of this Frankenstein-esque scene to begin his work.

Liam Sparkes
Liam Sparkes

Liam Sparkes is at war – with everything. Has been since he was a boy. Age 11 he sent a sketch of an armoured personnel carrier to the Queen. The London tattooist, raised on tales of conflict from grandparents who had manned frigates and parachuted behind enemy lines during the war, thought she might need it. She didn’t.

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  • Mark Mahoney

    Mark Mahoney

    At 60 years of age Mark Mahoney is no closer to putting down the needle and thinks he will probably “fall over in the tattoo shop”, the Shamrock Social Club, a parlour as famous and immutable as the strip it sits on. “Financially I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to do that…

  • An Underdog Called Hell

    An Underdog Called Hell

    Sixteen minutes after knocking on the front door of the Tanner residence, in Tottenham, north London, Ross Hell appears with eyes glazed as a doughnut in Adidas trackpants and a pink sleeveless t-shirt, of his own design, baring a crudely drawn Mickey Mouse flashing an anatomically exaggerated appendage.

  • Air Jordan

    Air Jordan

    What I can remember of being first introduced to tattoos was my neighbour Walt who I’ve known since I was a baby, he was an old biker covered in tattoos from being in and out of borstals as a kid, he’s got some funny ones and in more recent years I photographed him/his tattoos.

  • Berlin Connection

    Berlin Connection

    The muses are the goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology. So it fits, she’s my muse and she inspires me in many ways. Sometimes I think I paint her a lot to get to know her better. Trying to have a deeper understanding about the person I am…

  • Going Vinyl

    Going Vinyl

    In what is thought to be a world first, London artist Michele Servadio has turned the agony of going under the needle into music, with the release of his first record, Body of Reverbs (BOR): New Rituals For Contemporary Bodies. The limited-edition vinyl, to be released on September 7 in Hackney Wick, east London, features…

  • Excellence on Alma

    Excellence on Alma

    When I was about ten years old my mum started getting tattooed, she has full American Traditional style sleeves. That always inspired me immensely, along with my surroundings – New Zealand has a rich history of tattooing.