Tattoos

Taji checks out bad tattoos at the Dew Tour.

VICE meets Looney, an OG Shoreline Crip from Venice Beach, CA, and learns about his journey from prison to street tattoo artist.

Former neo nazi, TM Garret, helps people leave their white supremacist groups by covering up their WP tattoos

Tattoos are the most common way ICE and federal immigration agents determine an individual’s gang affiliation, but what actually qualifies as a gang tattoo is left up to enormous interpretation.

During Japanese occupation, thousands of Southeast Asian women were forced to serve as sex workers. But on one tiny island in Indonesia, local women resisted by heavily tattooing themselves. Broadly traveled to meet the last tattooed women of Timor.

VICE's Taji Ameen heads to New Jersey to get inked by a tattoo artist who has a one-star review average online.

Way back when tattooists had never heard the word Instagram, the needles used to be less than sanitary and most of their clients were sailors. People used to shudder with fear when they found out you were a tattooist.

i-D Meets with Grace Neutral, tattoo artist.