Tattoo culture magazine

Issue 1 — Spring 2026

Section

studio

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Studio visits: four rooms that feel like churches

Issue 01 · By Lena Okafor

Studio visits: four rooms that feel like churches

We asked four artists to describe the rooms where they work. The answers were less about equipment and more about light, silence and ritual.

The apprenticeship year

Issue 01 · By Tomás Rivera

The apprenticeship year

Sweeping floors, stretching stencils, and watching. What a first year inside a tattoo studio actually teaches — and what it costs.