Paris-based photographer David McCairley has long sought images that skirt the center and subjects who live on the wild side.

He’s photographed prostitutes, the down and out, the down trodden and most recently, dozens leather-clad French men and women who gathered at the Paris Art Tatoo Expo this spring.

His subjects, often pierced, happily collaborated with McCairley for these “action” skin photos in black and white. They sit or lay on tables while the skin doctors get to work, weaving illustrated fantasies on their arms, backs, legs, bellies and elsewhere.

“It becomes an addiction,” says David. “Once they start, they want more and more of them. Until they are a living tatoo.“

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