The French quarterly magazine "Small communities, big stories" Sphères has focused in its issue 6 on the tattooed community. By way of stories, the 144-page publication (actually a "mook", a contraction of "magazine" and "book") has gathered a set of interviews, reports and long-form papers covering the different spheres of tattoo evolution: artistic (with the singer Seth Gueko), political (in Myanmar, tattooing is a means of protest), institutional (enarque and tattooed, the former director of Radio France Jean-Paul Cluzel tells) but also that of the professionals with the portraits of two tattoo artists: the Lyonnaise Dodie, known for her ornamental style but also for her participation in the French reality TV show "Tattoo Cover" and L'Andro Gynette, from Nantes, who inks fun at puns and other diversions of expressions. A "peausthume" dossier also tackles the question of ageing and death, illustrated with beautiful portraits of elderly tattooed men photographed by Mathieu Benguigui. More radical, the American Dawn Sanders explains her approach to the post-mortem removal and conservation of her husband's tattooed skin, which she summarises as follows: "For me, it is the destruction of a work of art that is macabre. Spheres n°6, 20€, to order on: https://spheresmagazine.com
