Ailed Duarte is co-founder of La Marca studio, which has helped bring tattoo art, once illegal throughout Cuba, into the mainstream. She and host Nathan Thornburgh talked at the first-ever international tattoo convention in Havana, about the robust art and precarious commerce of Cuban tattooing.

Links:

La Marca Instagram

La Marca Homepage

Huck Magazine feature on Mike Magers’ tattoo photography

Mike Mager’s bookstore

Doctor Lakra tattoo artist IG

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