Website Review: Inked Inc.
Inked Talk is debuting a new feature today: Tattoo Website Reviews. Every week we will be spotlighting a new website that features some aspect of tattooing.
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Website Review: Inked Inc.
Inked Inc. features beautiful photos of tattooed professionals. The Inked Inc. project is more than just a website - the project includes a hardcover book, an online photography portfolio, a traveling exhibition, a line of apparel, and even an online community where readers and fans can share their own experiences as tattooed professionals.
The site’s creator, Dave Kimelberg, is a corporate attorney and photographer in Boston, Massachusetts who happens to be extensively tattooed himself. His experiences in covering up for the corporate world inspired him to share the lives of other inked professionals in beautiful full-color photos.
Many of Kimelberg’s photos feature the subjects covering their ink in “work appropriate” attire followed by photos of them displaying their tattoos. The Inked Inc. Youtube video gives a good overview of “before and after” type photographs.
There can be no doubt that tattoos have become more and more mainstream in recent years. People from all walks of life are not just getting tattoos, they are getting large, loud, wild tattoos and displaying them for the world to see. While corporate culture as a whole still frowns on body art, the tide is turning as more and more professionals are getting inked. Obviously, there are tattooed professionals out there, and there are probably more than anyone really realizes. How long will it be before they can stop covering up for the workplace? Time will only tell whether will we ever see the day where a physician with “Mom” tattooed on his forearm won’t make the general population do a double-take. The fact that Kimelberg’s photos are so interesting is a itself a commentary that the day has not yet arrived, but that there is a segment of the population who is fascinated by its coming.
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