Tattoo History examines
the rich history of tattooing and diverse cultures of tattoos around the world.

Tattoo Photo Galleries see some of the world's best photographers & the world's most beautiful tattooed women & tattooed men!

Who were the Hottest 101 Men & Women with Tattoos for 2007?
After years of compiling lists in which we divulged who among the numerous annual inventories of the "sexiest", "most desirable" and "most beautiful" women in the world had tattoos, we decided to simply put together our own lists. Check out the World's Hottest 101 Tattooed Women for 2007 & World's Hottest 101 Tattooed Men for 2007

Body Art Photo Galleries
View over 67 beautiful bodyart and photo galleries -- including our amazing Guest Photographers Galleries featuring tattoo photos & work from some of the very best fine art body and exotic art photographers in the world today! For nearly 2 years we ran a photo contest with a monthly prize of $500 and a yearly grand prize of $2500! The photo contest is finished, but there are hundreds of great pics in the archives, well worth a look! See the top tattoo photo contest entries here!

A Cultural History of Tattoos
Follow along on a fascinating journey through tattoo history -- paying tribute to the grand masters of the craft along the way -- and visiting the very places where the art of tribal tattooing originated.

The Vanishing Tattoo Documentary
Join us as famed Vancouver tattoo artist Thomas Lockhart & writer / adventurer Vince Hemingson capture on film, an epic quest around the world as they search for the last authentic tribal tattoos.
BUY THE PREMIER EPISODE on DVD HERE!

Starting in Borneo this tattoo adventure heads for the exotic locales of Samoa, Tahiti, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, Thailand, Russia, San Francisco, Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands and other ports of call as yet unknown.  Check the field notes from an earlier scouting trip for the Vanishing Tattoo documentary, in a worldwide quest for the last authentic tribal tattoos. Start an incredible tattooing adventure!

Tattoos are known around the world as: tatoeage, tatouage, tätowier, tatuaggio, tatuar, tatuaje, tatoos, tattueringar, tatuagens, tatoveringer, tattos, and tatu, and are more popular now than at any time in recorded history. Current estimates now have more than one in six, or well over 52 million people in North America alone, who have one or more tattoos.

View video clips from The Vanishing Tattoo DVD

Photo Galleries from the Borneo episode of The Vanishing Tattoo

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