The archive
Issue 1
Spring 2026
The debut issue of Our Body, a magazine about the people, places and practices of tattooing. Ten stories on craft, culture, studios and the cities that keep the needle moving.
10 stories in this issue
01
Blackwork and the quiet ritual of the needle
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02
The machine as instrument
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03
American traditional, re-read
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04
Irezumi and the architecture of the back
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05
Studio visits: four rooms that feel like churches
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06
The apprenticeship year
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07
City of needles: a walking tour of London tattoo shops
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08
Convention circuit: how tattoo expos found their voice
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09
Hand-poke, slow style
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10
Scratched, healed, lived-in: tattoos at forty
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