A British photographer has created a captivating series of portraits in an effort to debunk the tattoo-deviance stereotype.
50-year-old Rusty Walters shows his tattoos
30-year-old Cammy Stuart started tattooing his face at age 14
Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures and spread throughout the world. Today, one can find Atayal, Seediq, Truku, and Saisiyat of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos.
Xed Lehead has been tattooing himself since he was 13, when he used a homemade tattoo gun
Keith Gordon is 57 but started getting his face tattooed just three years ago
Since the 1970s, tattoos have become a mainstream part of Western fashion, common among both sexes, to all economic classes, and to age groups from the later teen years to middle age. Although for many people, the tattoo has taken on a decidedly different meaning than for previous generations, there are still people who perceive tattoos like something deviant and forbidden.
Himemiya Neko - 28 years old, but got her first tattoo at 13
Jack Denny, 20, had his eyebrows tattooed on at age 18 and wants his eyeballs tattooed next
Mark Leaver took pictures of people with the most iconic and notable facial tattoos in their usual environment: at home or at workplace, with their pets and relatives just to show that you should not judge someone by their appearance. With his photographs he wants people to understand that a tattoo is not a a form of deviance but an acceptable form of expression.
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