Hey everyone, In case you haven’t heard or seen our social media recently, we have a brand new venture to share with you all. For months now we have been toying with the idea of creating a separate platform to provide the content we have been creating on this site. The reasoning for this is that we never intended for this site to be used more than its purpose – a site to find tattoo artists and studios around the world. Well we finally have the solution to our dilemma and this comes in the form of TattooFan Magazine. We didn’t just want to create and be another standard ‘industry magazine’ – everything we set out to do, we do it in a completely unique way. From the way we present and provide the magazine, to our “cover stars” and much more. We provide you with everything that we were already doing on this site – news, interviews, job listing & articles. As of this posting, there will be no future content posted on this site and everything related will be put in our magazine. We invite all our readers and fans to come and join us on our new endeavour, Our […]

TATTOO-MAP: I must admit that when I first started to talk about tattoo, you were one of the first artists I heard about. It was about 8 years ago, and although it would seem to be a long time (in those years, the Polish tattoo scene has grown tremendously and hundreds of new tattoo artists have appeared), you’ve been tattooing for a long time now, right? How many years have you been tattooing? TOMASZ TOFI TORFIŃSKI: As for the hundreds, it is hard to say, however, I can successfully say that after me appeared several new generations of tatami and my generation actively participating in it with me were few who are still taking part in the scene. In principle, over-generational artists (if so can be defined) active in the Polish and international scene are few and rarely come to the new, who are interested in something more than being one or several seasonal phenomena. Going back to the question, I’ve been tattooing for 17 years, so it’s been a long time, and for the time being I’ve still got 13 years (according to my assumptions) of active tattooing until the so-called retirement. TATTOO-MAP: You are now one of the most recognized tattooists in Poland and in the world, […]

Hey all! Before we jump into this weeks edition there will be a few changes starting in future editions because there are some big things that Tattoo-Map are working on that has resulted in a change of format. We can’t reveal what’s going on behind the scenes right this second but rest assured you will all know more in the coming weeks. 🙂 Possible changes include: Number of artists featured in weekly articles will be reduced to 10 or 15, whichever format we feel more comfortable with. A new article at the end of the month which will have 10 of our favourite tattoos from that months editions. Possibility of ONLY featuring artists tagging @tattoomap on instagram with their pictures. This isn’t final but it would help us in terms of not missing top quality tattoos done that week as it gets hard to follow 5000+ amazing artists, not to mention the list is forever growing, so we are bound to miss great tattoos. It also increases exposure of unknown/underrated artists who need that extra help. As stated this isn’t final and just a possibility at this point. These are the ideas we have currently and there is the possibility of more changes. If you […]

Fantastic news from Steven Compton and his family! Steven has successfully completed his open-heart operation and has now been discharged from hospital. The fund raiser absolutely smashed its target goal in little time, the tattoo community really comes together when someone needs it. However donations are still welcomed via his gofundme page as Steven is still recovering and won’t be able to work until near the end of the year. Hats off to all who donated, shared. Hats off to Steven, his family and friends and a very special hats off to University of Texas Medical Branch for doing a fantastic job with the operation.