An ongoing record of the world's most precise geometric tattooists — assembled, photographed, and written about by hand.
OMF Geometry began as an Instagram feed and grew, slowly, into a journal. The work it documents — sacred geometry, dotwork, mandala, blackwork — is among the most disciplined tattooing being made, and it deserves the room a magazine gives it: time, attention, and a printed page that doesn't move.
Every artist in this directory was chosen for one reason: the work holds up under close looking. We open the gallery, look at twenty pieces, look at the lines under magnification, and only then add a name. There is no fee, no exchange, no algorithm. If a name is here, we stand behind it.
An issue is a long look at one practice, framed by a wider survey of the field. We publish when the work warrants it, not on a schedule.
Artists do not pay to appear. Studios do not sponsor features. The directory is a working bibliography, not a marketplace.
Every entry is read by a human, every image is chosen by a human, every line of copy is written by a human. That is the only honest way to do this.
We publish one annual issue — a collection of long-form interviews, studio visits, and short essays. Issue 01 arrives this fall, opening with a twelve-question conversation with Clément Berdah, photographed in his Paris studio. Each issue is a single, sustained look at the practice of geometric tattooing.
Artists are welcome to submit. The bar is high; the response is honest. We read every submission and reply to every one we add. The form is on the submit page.
Set in Cormorant Garamond, Inter Tight, and Space Mono. Written and edited in Paris, London, and Lyon. Photographed by the contributing artists. Look slowly.