It was 2005 when Tatuatori.it first appeared online, and for years it was a point of reference for many Italian tattooers and tattoo enthusiasts. If you got into tattooing before social media, you probably ended up there too: forums, classifieds, portfolios, in-depth articles, tips on technique and bureaucracy.
I’ve been following it since the very beginning, when I used it to check out other tattooers’ work, sort out bureaucratic issues, read forum discussions, and get a sense of how the tattoo world was moving in Italy.
That’s why the first official review of my book, 30 YEARS OF TATTOOS, published right there, carries a special weight for me. It doesn’t come from a generic website, but from an Italian platform that has spent twenty years living and breathing tattoos, industry information, and community.
In the article, the book is included among the Best Tattoo Books and described as “a work without precedent in the tattoo world.”
What struck me the most isn’t the technical data, which by now are obvious to me, but the human and professional side they managed to capture. Among other things, they write:
“The book gathers material which, without such meticulous editorial work, would have been lost. It is a real testimony of the evolution of tattooing in Italy from the ’90s to today, seen from the inside.”
That’s one of the many aspects of this book that they managed to grasp, maybe even better than I could, being so deeply involved in it.
I have to admit that reading the review I was almost moved. Maybe it’s fatigue, maybe it’s the amount of work that went into it, but seeing my journey understood by someone looking at it from the outside is probably the best part of all this.
And for that I can only say thank you, and invite you to read the article to understand how the project is seen from the outside.
You can find the article on the Italian portal Tatuatori.it here:
https://www.tatuatori.it/blog-news-tattoo/94-migliori-libri-tatuaggio/239-jerry-magni-pubblica-30-anni-di-tatuaggi-un-opera-senza-precedenti-nel-mondo-del-tattoo
You can find the page dedicated to the book, with a preview and the Amazon link, here:
https://jerrymagni.com/en/book-thirty-years-of-tattoos/