I just grabbed that foto off of Jullieit's deviantart page. According to her page, she is based in Sydney and Hong Kong. The above photo was apparently taken in Singapore.
I love this photo.
It is erotic, collaborative. It features prominently a woman's gaze (of the photographer herself, together with the eyes of the woman in the background), staring at the prominent homoeroticism of the quite quite gorgeous tattoo artist and his subject's body.
The image is also interesting to me because everyone is Asian; The 'counterculture' to Singapore's placid, efficient exterior (though never fully separate from it, of course). The photo is an invitation, or at least a window that we peer through, to witness this intimacy.
The tattoo-ed guy's gaze is averted away from the camera, while there is written upon the tattoo artist's face intense concentration, in a state of flow, his whole body leaning and oriented toward his art, his whole world zoning in on his act-of-inking... mergence of activity between two men enabling One shared activity... Intimate Comradeship? Etching fraternity into flesh.
Postcolonial man-on-man action...
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