Tatouage: Histoires de la Méditerrané: les Musées de Marseille

Photographs by Algerian photographer Lazhar Mansouri, on loan from Westwood Gallery NYC are presented in an exhibition by Les Musées de Marseille. Tatouage: Histoires de la Méditerranée explores the art and practices of tattooing from Antiquity to contemporary culture in the Mediterranean region.

Mansouri’s photographs capture the fading tradition and history of face tattooing among Amazigh (Berber) women. The studio portraits on view in Marseille were taken from approximately the 1950s to 1970s at Mansouri's studio in Aïn Beïda, Algeria.