Tatouage Sauvage - Alaska
When the tattoo is made live, without being drawn first
In August 2018, we traveled in Alaska for 15 days to follow the tattoo artist Ivan le Pays into the wild. During this journey, we shot 5 tattoo sessions that represent 5 different types of landscapes that we came upon, one for each of the 5 crew members of this expedition.
-Idea: Ivan Le Pays @ivanlepays
-Images: Sauvage Studio (Alexis Malin + Thomas Chevillotte) @sauvage_studio
-Camera 1: Alexis Malin (Canon 5D mark IV + DJI Mavic Air)
-Camera 2: Thomas Chevillotte (Canon 5D mark III)
-Camera 3: Jules Leduc & Thibault Lebivic (Iphone 6)
-Original Soundtrack: S8JFOU (soundcloud.com/s8jfou)
-Editing: Alexis Malin
-Writing: Ivan Le Pays
-Animations: Thomas Chevillotte
-Tattoos: Ivan Le Pays
-Photography: Sauvage Studio, Jules Leduc, Ivan Le Pays
-Special thanks to Etienne Axelos (for the tattoo power supply prototype) & Lucie Mouchet-Vaisman (for the project coordination).
©Ivan Le Pays & Sauvage Studio - February 2019
The idea was to choose a place we liked during our trip, and then let Ivan le Pays draw on our skin with his portable tattoo machine. Let him be inspired by the pure wilderness beauty of Alaska and then have a souvenir engraved forever on us.
The five crew members ;)
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