Events
Swallow Tattoo Studio
One of the most famous sudios of the history of tattoo. This is Swallow's tattoo shop, a legendary tattoo artist from Hong Kong, active from 1963 till 1998, Swallow was born in China in 1931, he moved to Hong Kong with his family when he was 15 years old and that's when his tattoo career startedm when James Ho at Rose, popular local artist recognized the talent of this teenager, His studio became a temple of tattoo, rich in tattoo flash made for his customers, old style flash, sailor sybjectrequests of walk-ins, especially soldiers travelling to the war zones of Korea and Indochina, Thousands of drawings whose subjects are reinterpreted in thousand different ways, and that show what tattoo was like back then, small drqwings of pin-ups, palm trees with the name of an exotic city, but also more oriental subjects as tigers, panters, lions or dragons,
Swallow's world is now shown through the photos of Chris Wroblewski, British Photographer who documented the tattoo art in several tattoo books, The exhibition presents the flash and the photos of Swallow and his studio collected by Wroblewski in his book,
Swallow Tattoo Studio, Hong Kong, 1963 - 1998
www.chirswroblewski.com
