This collection of 200+ portraits of pierced, tattooed, and heavily body-modified people is a celebration by photographer Efrain John Gonzalez. In this colourful volume Gonzalez, as an artist, captures both the spirit of the many individuals and the rich uniqueness of their fantastic tattoos, piercings, brandings, cuttings, subdermal implants, and radical transformations. Many of the images of this great tattoo art and extreme individuals were photographed during the past decade during the New York City Tattoo Convention at the Roseland Ballroom. Gonzalez has a reputation as one of America's most prolific fetish documentarians, and he has travelled America to make images of people stretching their limits?and their skin. Much of his work was taken live at the moment it happened, and in places that aren't accessible for most people. Gonzalez seeks out truth in people and in this volume he shares it with the reader in a collection quite unlike anything else. AUTHOR: Efrain Gonzalez is a fines art photographer with a bent to the erotic, the unusual, and the sexually extreme. He seeks radical images that tell stories about people who discover thier souls and stretch their limits. Judson Rosebush is a director and producer of multimedia and computer animation projects in New York City. ILLUSTRATIONS: 215 colour photographs *
