Juggalo Tattoos
The very first year I went to the Gathering of the Juggalos I did a post on juggalo tattoos. The Village Voice ran the same gallery and apparently it did pretty well because four years later they asked me to shoot tattoos again which ended up becoming this slide show. What’s funny is that several of the tattoos are in BOTH galleries and a couple of the juggalos I have become friends with over the years.
The hatchetman tattoo is pretty much on everyone. If you are a juggalo and you have any tattoos you probably have that shit somewhere. Sadly it’s not something gang task forces look for and make note of. I have heard stories of people getting kicked out of the military or the tattoo being used as evidence in custody hearings. It’s pretty insane, pun not intended.
I tried to focus on the bigger tattoos, the better tattoos and the much worse tattoos because of I didn’t this gallery could be 10,000 photos long. I saw some wicked Carebears, some impressive back pieces and even saw someone with a Twiztid tattoo that my friend Lamour Supreme did for their Mishka collab. That was pretty cool. One of these days I gotta get my own juggalo tattoo to memorialize my five years documenting one of the wildest subcultures in the world. Whoop whoop and shit.
Click here to see a bunch of juggalo tattoos at the 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos.
