Inked: Local tattoo artists keep it real in the age of reality TV and commercial counterculture


Flash Gordon, owner of Flash Tat-2 in Charlottesville,f irst learned his trade in the tattoo parlors of Washington, D.C., where he picked up the Traditional American style from old school artists like Carol Nightingale. Photo: Courtesy subject

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