[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]I[/dropcap]n addition to the expected vintage-attired crowd displaying the ever popular old school designs of skulls and swallows, there was a selection of tribes and a range of ages – from the dreadlocked kids with facial piercings and tribal tattoos sucking on roll-ups to the portly old-timers nursing the pints clutched in their darkly scrawled hands leading up to faded sleeves.
– Sarah Corbett reporting on the London Tattoo Convention.
But we want PICTURES, dammit! Carl Byron Batson obliges:
All photos by Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without prior permission from the photographer.
Photographer, published poet, former party animal, body builder, grave robber
to the stars and renowned chainsaw juggler, Carl can often be spotted on his
Harley Davidson pretending to be in Terminator 2. He is also frequently seen in
the press pits of old London town, camera in hand, avoiding being hit by bottles
of wee and crippling his opposition with secret Kung Fu moves.
![L'Esprit comique [Der komische Geist], René Magritte, 1928. Courtesy Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin © 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo Credit: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin](https://b276103.smushcdn.com/276103/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ew11_0098489_2025-05-12_web-140x174.jpg?lossy=1&strip=0&webp=1)
