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New Orleans Based Art-on-Skin Photo Series Will be on Display
My photo project Black Ink will get some wall space at Downtown New Orleans museum.
I started Black Ink over a year ago with the intention of creating a project that showed art-on-skin in various, unusual locations throughout New Orleans. Starting on October 14th, three prints from this series will be on display at the New Orleans Tattoo Museum. This is where I wanted to show this work when it was initially begun and I’m happy that it’s where it will be first shown.
There will be smaller, non-limited edition prints sized at 8.5x11 available on site.
Info:
The New Orleans Tattoo Museum
1915 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
New Orleans,
So close that you can feel the sting and hear the buzz
I got in super close while shooting at the New Orleans Tattoo Museum. Click to view more.
A few months ago, I started working on a project in conjunction with The New Orleans Tattoo Museum in Central City. I'll share more news about that in a future post but I wanted to share what we've been doing so far. I've worked closely with proprietor and artist, Adam Monetegut, which has given me a much closer relationship to the art of tattooing than I've ever had. If you get a chance to go down there, check it out. It's a really cool space, especially if you're into the history and art of tattooing.
During my most recent shoot at the location, I got the chance to get in real close to see how it looks when the needle pecks at the skin. It's not easy to get great shots using a macro lens when you're that close and in a setting that I'm documenting but it's been a great and fun challenge. As you'll see below, we still have a long way to go before this project is complete.
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