Bonus Footage from the Valerie Vargas Tattoo Age Series featuring Lal Hardy.
When we filmed the Valerie Vargas Tattoo Age series, she took us to meet the legendary English tattooer Lal Hardy. Lal has been tattooing since 1975 and is generally considered to be one of the people who elevated tattooing in the UK in the 1980s. Lal is also an amazing storyteller, and he entertained us for quite some time at his shop, New Wave Tattoo Studio. We were so enamored with Lal’s stories that we kinda got off track and ended up talking more about English tattoo history than Ms. Vargas. Oh well. What you have here is just a snippet of our conversation with Lal that will hopefully turn into something bigger in the future. Enjoy.
Marcus Kuhn presents the fifth edition of The Gypsy Gentleman tattoo and travel video magazine. Featuring interviews with Valerie Vargas and Ian Flower.
Episode 2 of the Valerie Vargas Tattoo Age Series by Vice.
In the second installment of the Valerie Vargas episode, Vice takes a closer look at Frith Street, the tattoo parlor where she works, and its owner, Dante DiMassa. Valerie also gives us insight into her development as a tattooer and why London will be her home base for the foreseeable future.
Tattoo Age is back. In Season Two VICE travels the world to feature different artists from all ends of the tattoo spectrum, including Valerie Vargas of the UK, Mutsuo of Japan, and Thom deVita of New York City. Each artists’ episodes will include three installments, airing every Wednesday on VICE.COM.
First up – Valerie Vargas, whose first installment will air next Wednesday, September 12th.
The design team at Penguin chose 6 tattooers to help them with the project. The chosen artists include Duncan X, Han van de Sluys, Judd Ripley, Lynn Akura, Russ Abbott and Valerie Vargas.
