I found this gallery on bmezine.com. The intro reads:
Those of you especially the women reading this that have been to tattoo conventions know how aggressive the photographers from tattoo magazines can be. Some of them, including some “big name” ones have a reputation for aggressive hounding of women for photos, bordering on both sexual harassment and simply insulting. Those that do agree to go to their room for photos find themselves pressured to take their top off to “better show the tattoo on their wrist”, and when they refuse, find themselves the brunt of insults and sometimes even threats from the photographer’s biker associates.
At the 2003 Montreal Tattoo Convention in Quebec, Canada, we set Jerome up with a photo booth and he went at the convention as a true artist, with the aim of taking beautiful portraits of the people he encountered, not some cheap thinly-veiled pornography to run in discount magazines advertising “home tattoo kits”.
The photos are truly beautiful. Scroll down the page to get to the thumbnails if you want to skip the article. :)
I like the oriental tattoo that goes up the side of that gals back. Very cool. Scary piercing guy though.
Gorgeous portraits – and that’s saying something given some of the subject matter /grin.