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HOW TO SUBMIT WORK TO US

WE PREFER UN-RETOUCHED IMAGES whether you are submitting photographs or digital images. Please do not sweeten, crop or otherwise manipulate them.

DIGITAL IMAGES: Interior images should be 300 dpi, at least 1 MB and sized at approximately 2300 x 2700 pixels. Cover images should be approximately 3000 x 3600 pixels. Each image must have your name (i.e., JaneDoe1.tiff, JaneDoe2.tiff, etc.). Ideally, images should either preview as thumbnails on the disk or you should include a print out of thumbnails of all images. WE DO NOT ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS VIA EMAIL UNLESS WE REQUEST THEM FROM YOU. Please include full contact info on the disk (see below).

HARD COPIES: All photos need to have your name, shop name, and full address and email address on the back. We suggest you write this information on a label and then apply the label to the back of the photo; often when you write directly onto the back of the photo with ink pen (or an ink stamp), the ink smears or bleeds, making the photo unusable. Please send duplicates, not your only copies. Also, please send prints on photographic paper. We cannot use laser printouts.

FLASH, ILLUSTRATIONS & CARTOONS: Do not send us your originals. Send high quality laser prints or images on disk (see above).

WRITER'S GUIDELINES: Manuscripts can be virtually any size, although we recommend between 500 and 1000 words. Manuscripts with accompanying graphics and/ or photographs are given higher priority since ours are visually-oriented publications. We are not interested in "beginner's" articles ("My First Tattoo," etc.) unless they have unique or unusual value. We are interested in articles that have a fresh slant on tattooing and body art such as traditions from other countries, new techniques and trends, religious and ritual practices, unusual tattooed people, or historical figures, places and events.

All submissions will are treated as unconditionally assigned for publication with all clearances and releases secured by the submitter and implicit in the submission. No holding fees are paid.

Send work to:
Art & Ink Publications
NC Music Factory
1000 Seaboard Street #C-6
Charlotte, NC 28206-2991

You must include a self-addressed stamped envelope it you want your work back! We're serious! If your work is used, we'll let you know you via letter or email. We appreciate your sharing your work with us and encourage you to keep doing so.