In a heavily tattooed crowd, it takes a lot of effort to stand out.
Colombian body modifier Damian Carnicero managed to rise above the crowd at the
Cali Tattoo Festival.
The gathering of tattoo enthusiasts took place in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali from Sept. 11 to 13, 2015, drawing 250 tattoo artists from around the world. Attendees included body modifiers who donned tattooed eyeballs, facial spikes, piercings and surgically altered tongues.
Carnicero, whose stage name means "butcher" in Spanish, is a Colombian artist whose primary interest is pushing the limits of pain. Photos from the festival show the 29-year-old suspended from a tree by metal hooks embedded in his skin.
"I'm judicious in my work ... My passion is to modify myself, to modify other people, and travel the world,"
Carnicero told Colombian newspaper La Cronica del Quindio in an interview in May. "People imagine that I'm a bad person, that I'm dangerous because of the way I look. But they're mistaken ... I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do drugs."
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