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“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.” Photographer Oscar Munar gets under the skin of proponents who love the world of ink.

“She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; “What does that mean?” he asked her. “Absolutely nothing,” she said, “it’s just a flower.”

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Left: Chiara Luna Pinto @fruitygoon. Right: Helen Hitori @helen_hitori

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Dimitri Starsky @yarazobralsya

“He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did it to tempt women.”

Paul Martino @paulo33martino

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

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Left: Sergey Korotky @hourubuji. Right: Helen Hitori @helen_hitori

“Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts.”

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Chiara Luna Pinto @fruitygoon

“I’ll become someone new. Through blood and pain and ink, I can be remade.”

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Helen Hitori @helen_hitori

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Sergey Korotky @hourubuji

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Helen Hitori @helen_hitori

 

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