Want to see the best tattoos around? Step outside your front door
I’ve been shooting tattoos since I picked up a camera. But when I moved to Long Beach eight years ago, I discovered that as much as I loved Los Angeles for all its diversity, I could find all of that—and more—right here.
This city has [...]

We salute our first-ever tattoo contest winners!
For The District’s first-ever large body work tattoo contest, we invited Outer Limits owner Kari Barba and Ink-N-Iron festival producer Trace Edwards to click through reader-submitted photos on our Flickr pool and—heh, heh—pick a winner. Their unanimous choice was Mike Gonzales, whose lotus flower sleeves and Hindu-inspired body work [...]