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Portraits of People Whose Traditional Māori Tattoos Disappear in Wet Plate Photos “When photographs of tā moko were originally taken in the 1850s, the tattoos barely showed up at all. The wet-plate photographic method used by European settlers served to erase this cultural marker.”

Fintan Magee // Murray Street - inSIGHT Lab inSIGHT Lab got the opportunity to talk to seminal figurative artist Fintan Magee, about the inspiration ... DISCOVER