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A rare glimpse into the dark world of post-Soviet prison life, the London show "Russian Criminal Tattoos" features a series of photographs of prisoners and their artistic tattoos. From the cells of Russian prison settlements in far-off places with names like Nizhny Tagil, Perm and Chelyabinsk, many of the tattoos were forcibly (and disgustingly) removed…
Throughout the Communist era, convicts in the Soviet prison system used tattoos to signal their social standing, tastes, and interests to fellow criminals.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the life of the vory v zakone (or thieves in law, members of Russian organized crime) has become a subject of great interest. From life in prison to the stories of individuals, this almost secretive organization has been receiving attention from westerners to the Russian people themselves, as…
These photographs of prisoners’ tattoos were collected by Arkady Bronnikov from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s. An expert in criminalistics, he visited correctional institutions across the Soviet Union to collect photos to help to understand the tattoos’ language, and to identify and catch criminals.
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From the 1960s to 1980s, Arkady Bronnikov visited correctional facilities all over the Soviet Union and photographed thousands of tattooed inmates to decode their body art – and helped solve many crimes by identifying criminals based on their ink. Here, you can learn what roses, snakes and cowboys really mean ...
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In these images the nameless bodies of criminals act as both a text and mirror, reflecting and preserving the ever-changing folklore of the Russian...
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FUEL present the archives of arkady bronnikov's russian criminal tattoo police files as a published book and exhibition.
Exhibition dates: 12th February - 20th September 2015 Ruiko Yoshida (Japnese, b. 1938) One Holiday of a Japanese Masseuse, Tokyo, 1978 1978 C-Print 27 x 27.2cm © Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Although I have ten tattoos by different artists – including a full back job by Alex Binnie of London – and…
Il tatuaggio criminale russo costituisce un vero e proprio linguaggio. Un linguaggio complesso, contraddittorio, inesauribilmente simbolico. Non è possibile spiegarne la portata in un solo articolo. Quindi, quest’articolo non vuole essere null’altro che una semplice introduzione a questo multiforme universo, basata sulla lettura dei volumi di Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. I tatuaggi criminali russi hanno […]
We spoke to the publisher of a book about Soviet prison ink about what tattoos would mark you as a thief, a homosexual, or a high-ranking criminal.
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