louis esmé

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TATTOOS

skin stitch
hand poke

image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s hand and wrist, with a fresh hand poked tattoo and an older hand poked tattoo by two different artists. the band closer to their wrist is by louis esme, 2019

image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous woman with freshly skin stitched lines in the middle of her ring finger.
louis esmé, 2019

image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous woman with freshly hand poked tattoo. a tree with roots and branches, on her left thumb.
louis esmé, 2019

image description: black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous woman’s fresh hand poked tattoo of an open book with a dotted line in the middle and a new bud growing from it.
louis esmé, 2018

image description: a black and white photograph of a light skinned Indigenous fresh skin stitched tattoos, one on each wrist.
louis esmé, 2018

image description: black and white photograph. a dark skinned Indigenous person’s fresh skin stitched tattoo in Cree syllabics.
louis esmé, 2019

image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s freshly hand poked tattoo of a sunflower beetle on their upper thigh.
louis esmé, 2018

image description: a black and white photograph. hand drawn lettering on paper, various styles. “tattoos for our beautiful, awkward, gender complex, chubby, skinny, hairy and scarred, painfully exhausted, Indigenous bodies”
louis esmé, 2018

image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s freshly hand poked and skin stitched tattoo on their inner calf.
louis esmé, 2018