Tattoo artist Iness Aguin is completing her apprenticeship in Montreal, and tattoos clients using Amazigh symbols in her home studio in Laval, Que. (Fatima El Gahami - image credit)Iness Aguin's tattoo studio isn't like most you'll find in the Montreal area. Aguin is working to revive a traditional North African Indigenous tattoo style rarely practised here, despite Montreal's large population from the region. The tattooed symbols hold deep meaning and are seen as healing and spiritually powerful in Amazigh culture. (Fatima El Gahami)She brought what she learned about the tattoo style and the symbols' meaning back to Montreal, where she is a tattoo artist apprentice.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 08, 2023 08:11 UTC