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We started Aswad to provide you with tattoo stories with a focus on traditional berber tattooing. Hope you will enjoy reading them.
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4y ago
Florian, aka Viajeroflo, tattoo artist, travels the World and gets his inspiration from the traditional tattoos he encounters. Combining ancient Amazigh tattoo symbols with other influences like mandalas, sacred geometry and ornemental designs makes Florian’s work very interesting.
When did you start tattooing, what was your background and what are the reason behind this choice ?
I started a bit less than 2 years ago, I bought my machine when I was living in Martinique Island, just trying on myself and I did the first one on a friend in Paris. I wanted to tattoo for a very long t ..read more
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5y ago
Matilde Borriero, aka Matt_Rand0ms, is a multidisciplinary artist from Arco, Italy. She practises modern tattooing, traditional handpoke, and is also experimenting other body modification techniques.
We met Matilde online when we started Aswad, and we were mermerized by her focus and great approach towards traditional tattooing, specially on her work around traditional and neo-amazigh rituals.
How did you become a tattoo artist and what about the handpoke?
Well, I never considered the tattooer career before the moment I actually find myself into “the game”. I started just for ..read more
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5y ago
Ghazal Jafari is a talented hanpoke artist based in The Netherlands.
Talisman creator ♡ Specialized in blackwork tattoos ♡ Combining ancient healing and protection symbols, Spirit Animals and Sacred Geometry ♡
We asked Ghazal about her work and strong interest in tattoo symbolism and she gladly accepted to answer our questions
Family portrait
Ghazal started tattooing thanks to her mother, a well established cosmetic and medical tattooist and who has been teaching students for over 20 years. After getting the basics of cosmetic tattooing, Ghazal realised that it wasn’t the ..read more
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5y ago
In 2016, Myriam Bou-saha and the German/French channel Arte, went on a trip to meet a young tunisian tattoo artist: Manel Mahdouani. They followed her on her adventure in south Tunisia, a quest for meaning, art and heritage.
Tattooing Tunis
In Tunisia, there are only a few tattoo artists in the capital, and she is the only woman among them. Like the others, she has no official status, but her studio is crowded with customers in demand for ink.
Since the “wind of freedom” that blew on the country in January 2011, many hype youngsters are adopting tattoos. However, despite “a certai ..read more
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5y ago
Loretta’s book “Berber Tattooing in Morocco’s Middle Atlas”, illustrates her journey exploring, with her husband Felix Leu, the fading tattoo culture of Berber tribes in 1988.
The Moutain Road
Felix & Loretta Leu, both born in 1945, are artists and adventurers. They travelled and lived in America, Europe, North Africa, India and Nepal, and in time were accompanied by four children, who were all born “on the road”. In 1978 they discovered tattooing and, from there, “Leu” became one the most respected names in the tattoo world.
As tattoo artists themselves, Felix and Loretta we ..read more