Ukrainian Tattoo Artist Counts Clients Who Died in the War

Коллаж: слева тату-мастер Yulik в чёрных очках и с бородой, справа его клиент, в центре крупный план татуировки в стиле old school — надгробие с надписью OLD FRIEND и черепом, окружённые шиповником

At the Tattoo Hall studio in Dnipro, located about 60 miles from the front line, time flows differently than in peaceful workshops. People come here not for aesthetics or self-expression – they come to capture what would otherwise fade from memory. A local artist named Yulik keeps his own statistics, which most of his colleagues wouldn’t even consider keeping: during the war, his works include over 50 people who died on the front. He himself is now also a soldier, and, as he admits, burying his own works is one of the most difficult experiences of his life.

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