The Stories Behind the Tattoos of 13 Russian Criminals

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A man in chains, birds in free flight, religious iconography and the many bobbled domes of Russian cathedrals. These are some of the many images tattooed onto the skin of Russian prisoners in a series of photographs published this month by FUEL. The collection of 918 photographs was originally collected by Arkady Bronnikov– an expert in criminal behaviour at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs – between the 1960...