Sacred Debris

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Archiving, Documenting, and Contextualizing body modification history, culture, and ephemera since 1993. http://bodymodificationarchive.com

Two photos of phallic squid tattoos.
two men sitting at a table. One has long hair and a grey mustache and beard. the other is a dork, in a Fred Perry Polo, and has tattoos covering his arms and throat. They're looking at a laptop.
Two specimen cups- one with a green lid, one a red lid. A black bar covers the contents, with a graphic reading JACK YOUNT THE MISSING PIECES; EVOLUTION OF A SUBCULTURE 01.
Man pushing his finger through his stretched pierced tongue. photo by Philip Barbosa, 1999
book cover for INDELIBLE IDENTITIES 01: A QUEER HISTORY OF TATTOOING. it features a tattoo design of a swallow (bird) and heart, with the word QUEER in the banner. The author is Shawn Porter.
A square graphic- it features a piercing needle and captive bead ring in the background; the foreground text reads: evolution of a subculture 01: Jack Yount. Presented by Shawn Porter & Brian Skellie. 2026
A fella getting his bootyhole tattooed by another fella.
A large group of people facing the camera.
Graphic advertising two lectures in August 2025; BMXNet Shawn Porter Indelible Identities 01- John Dagion and Evolution of a Subculture 03 Scar Wars
A smiling tattooed and pierced woman with decorative cutting on her chest.
A shirtless, tattooed man with pierced nipples
A younger bearded man with a bone through his pierced septum.
Graphic that reads SCAR WARS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
A book page screenshot, right side has a pink zine cover with a tattooed penis. The tattoo is of an eagle fighting a snake on the client's penis. The magazine is TRASH. True Revelations and Strange Happenings.
Four stacks of magazines, all titled TRASH: True Revelations and Strange Happenings. One cover features a tattooed penis, two covers feature "rough trade" and one is just text.
A book cover featuring a man's exposed tattooed chest. there's an eagle tattoo on his chest. the text reads INDELIBLE IDENTITIES A QUEER HISTORY OF TATTOOING
A full torso scarification of JR "Bob" Dobbs
unclose portrait in black and white of a man with large stretched nostril piercings.
Video featuring tattoo artist Sailor Sid Diller freehand drawing “black graphic” - later to be primarily called “tribal” - tattoo design on a clients arm
Two men stand naked from the waist up; one is bearded, with a large ivory tusk through his pierced septum. he has very large pierced nipples and tattoos. His counterpart has a mustache and a single pierced nipple
Cover of NODAL POINTS 6 magazine. Features a Ma Song devotee pushing rulers through a large opening in his cheek.
A magazine cover featuring a black and white illustration of a Native American influenced male pinup. His nipples are pierced. The text reads PFI QUARTERLY Issue 13. Featuring Special Who's Who double feature Meet Sunny & A Viking Navaro. Plus... letters and photos galore. The cover is signed in black pen BUD 2001.
An anthropomorphic vulva with a fancy hat and phallus walking stick with a banner that reads SACRED DEBRIS and text underneath that reads SEE YOU AT BMXNET 2025
A tattooed woman looking directly into the camera. She has a large tiger on one side of her chest and is rad as hell.
A black and white drawing of a skull with the text TATTOOING BY GUY AITCHISON
A man with an ivory tusk through his septum piercing is seen piercing the nipple of a fully tattooed man.
Prismacolor drawing of a winged tiger by tattooer Ed Hardy
A photocopied “zine” called TRASH: True Revelations and Strange Happenings. The cover features a tattooed man who, it is implied, traded sex for a tattoo.
A hand holding a photograph, back is showing. It says “Larry and Mary during a Hackensack T&P party- 1975”
Yellow flier featuring a female devil. She is holding a box of Halos that are meant to resemble a box of condoms. The flier is for tattooers Guy Aitchison and Mad Jack Kaplan. The flier is from around 1991.
Yellow flier with a female devil/demon with a biomechanical background. Text reads GIP: Tattooing by Guy Aitchison and Mad Jack.
A young man looks at the camera; he has a tattoo machine in his hand, a banner behind him that features a panther and the text MIKE WILSON; his client is facing away from camera and hs a heart with wings tattooed on her back.
A man's torso with extensive decorative scarification.
Two page spread from book featuring a tattooed man named Emil.
A bald man, facing away from camera, looks into a mirror. Tattoo flash (design sheets) are on the walls.
Tattoo Artist Val Watson; 1976. African American woman with flower tattoos on her arm visible, and a star tattoo on her neck. She's wearing a convention badge and holding a cup.
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A bearded man, facing slightly away from camera, with multiple piercings in his ear and nose. Sourced from a polaroid print, approximately 1981. sacreddebris.com
A sailor and another man in a tattoo shop. Black and white photo dated Feb 56.
A tattooed hand holding a zine. The zine features a photo of a man with metal rulers pushed through a large opening in his cheek and coming out of his mouth. He is a MA SONG devotee at the Phuket Vegetarian festival. Photo by our good friend Pineapple Tangaroa.
A man sitting looking away from the camera. His head is fully tattooed by Dan Higgs.
An arm with an age-worn tattoo of a black cat next to a 13, with a banner reading GOOD LUCK
Two cards advertising INDELIBLE IDENTITIES: a queer history of tattooing 01 John Dagion. One card features a black and white photo of younger John; the second features him tattooing flames coming out of a clients asshole.
A tattooed man, in white underpants, lays on the floor being tattooed by a man bending over. The tattooed man's body is covered with the tentacles of a giant squid. The tattooer is a young Ed Hardy. sacreddebris.com
A tattooed man in a sailors cap tattooing the taint of another naked man.