Brighton Tattoo Convention 2010

February 2, 2010

Last Saturday our current intern, Tom Chambers , went to the Brighton Tattoo Convention up at Brighton race course, where the convention hosted 175 spaces for tattooists, suppliers, merchandisers and other traders, and provided a place for hundreds of people to get tattooed over the weekend.

Last year Kevin and Natasha managed to *ahem* secure a room upstairs and shoot some portraits with the basic rule that whatever you entered the room wearing/holding thats how you would be shot. You can see one of those images here.

Tom decided to spend the day on the convention floor wandering among the stalls. It is an incredibly popular event and made taking photos at the convention tricky at times, as it can be cramped squeezing through the colourfully inked crowd with people in your way, and when there is a chance to get a shot, a coy carp covered arm moves into your line of view.. But he did grab some candid photos, as there were some weird and wonderful sights to capture – including some traditional Maori tattooing techniques inside a boxing ring, where the tattooist uses a comb-like instrument and a tapping stick to imprint the ink rather than using a gun.

Here’s a few photos but you can see the full album here.

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1. Danny "Hulk" Hogan says:

   February 2, 2010 at 9:32 am

   I want to write something derogatory but these photos are too damn good.

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