It’s been a month since I took one of the biggest risks of my life: getting a tattoo. I had been planning it for a while. I’d scroll through Pinterest and romanticize the idea of ink permanently ...

Getting your first tattoo rarely happens in a perfectly calm, logical moment. More often, it arrives wrapped in adrenaline and emotion, with the sense that something meaningful is about to happen.

I’m Özgün, a tattoo artist based in Istanbul, and I’ve been tattooing for about eight years. Recently, my girlfriend and I opened our own private studio, Atelier Dimora, where we focus on creating ...