Tattoo Life Magazine 139

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In this issue meet Emelie Axelson, our Swedish cover girl, with a contagious laugh, sunny by nature and just mad about makeup and tattoos.

We go to Tokyo to meet Taku Oshima, famous for his Tribal tattoos inspired by Jomom culture. Kelly Violet works in London and her pieces are a counterpoint of light and dark, with flowers, leaves, folklore, mythology and science fiction. David Ben Kaye is waiting for us in Auckland at Ship Shape Tattoo, where he creates his tattoos in Realistic style adding sometimes a very dark approach. Sacred geometries, mandalas and Realism are the benchmark of Abian Lamotta tattoos. He is the owner of Secret Seeds in Zurich, where he creates pieces in which human and animal faces combine with sacred and geometric texture.

We visit the renowned Three Tides Tattoo in their historic studios in Tokyo and Osaka, and the tattooists there work mainly in the Japanese style: Masa, Horitomo, Nami, Horihiro, Ichibay and Mutsuo, our mentor in the visit we did at these two Japanese tattoo hub,

…and much more!!!