Seeing the Tattooed Body: Meaning, Gaze, and Co-authorship This street photograph shows the back of a figure standing: shorts, trainers, the calves fully visible. Across those calves, vivid tattoos – one a koi fish, the other a lotus flower and possible dragon form – announce themselves in colour and detail. The photographer and subject are…

Hidden Cult: The Price of Being Seen A student walks onto campus in a matching sweatsuit. The words Hidden Cult stretch across the back in Gothic script. The outfit costs more than two hundred pounds. A plain one from M&S would cost a sixth of that. Yet the message stitched into the cloth draws the…