In 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:
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