World Goth Day 2025
We've joined forces with four of the resident artists at Parliament Tattoo to celebrate World Goth Day.
In honour of the gothic arts, we reached back in time and learnt about the lost art of collodion photography. Invented in the 1850s, this gorgeous photographic style has immortalised our artists and their designs. Photographed in North London by John Hoare in his wetplate studio, the images were captured using an 8x10 bellows camera with an antique lens.
Wetplate collodion photography is the chemical photographic process which replaced the daguerreotype. A plate of tin or glass is sensitised with silver nitrate and placed in a large format camera. Once developed in the proper solution, the final product is silver metal imprinted on a black sheet.
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Learn a little more about the artists below.
Specialising in blackwork, Hellie's distinctive style is characterised by its spiky, dark, and gothic aesthetic. With a passion for pushing boundaries and creating edgy designs. Hellie infuses each tattoo with intricate details and bold symbolism.
Specialising in dark, horror, and bio-organic designs, with a passion for tattooing skulls, eerie animals, and otherworldly creatures, Angel is a blackwork artist. Her work often draws inspiration from the Souls games and the Lovecraftian universe.
Inspired by the timeless and often macabre works of Harry Clarke and Aubrey Beardsley, Kat treads the line between hand drawn artist and tattooist. With additional traditional Japanese, religious and medieval influences Kat firmly believes in the slow pace and serenity of the act of storytelling through image.
Claudia's tattooing style is illustrative blackwork, combining heavy lines with lots of fine line detail and dotwork shading. She takes inspiration from flowing natural forms, with a gothic touch.
