Mara Voss
Writer & tattoo artist
Mara Voss is a blackwork artist and writer based in London. Her column Slow Work appears in every issue of Our Body.
The people
Contributors
Lena Okafor
Studio correspondent
Lena Okafor visits studios across Europe and writes about the rooms, rituals and routines behind the work.
Ivy Chen
City editor
Ivy Chen is the city editor of Our Body, mapping tattoo culture street by street, from London to Lisbon.
Sofia Lindqvist
Culture writer
Sofia Lindqvist writes about tattoo history, symbolism and the slow revival of traditional methods. Based in Copenhagen.
Kenjiro Hase
Contributing editor, Tokyo
Kenjiro Hase is a contributing editor based in Tokyo, covering irezumi, traditional studios and the changing face of Japanese tattooing.
Jonas Adeyemi
Machine builder & journalist
Jonas Adeyemi builds custom tattoo machines in Berlin and writes about the craft's tools, workshops and public stages.
Tomás Rivera
Apprentice chronicler
Tomás Rivera spent a year inside a working studio documenting the apprenticeship from the floor up. This is his first magazine feature.
This issue
01 Blackwork and the quiet ritual of the needle → 02 The machine as instrument → 03 American traditional, re-read → 04 Irezumi and the architecture of the back → 05 Studio visits: four rooms that feel like churches → 06 The apprenticeship year → 07 City of needles: a walking tour of London tattoo shops → 08 Convention circuit: how tattoo expos found their voice → 09 Hand-poke, slow style → 10 Scratched, healed, lived-in: tattoos at forty →