{"id":92520,"date":"2026-10-13T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92520"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:55:00","slug":"how-hong-kongs-post-war-tattoo-scene-fused-sailor-art-with-chinese-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92520","title":{"rendered":"How Hong Kong\u2019s post-war tattoo scene fused sailor art with Chinese imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/12\/ee8f7d3a-6e67-4d2f-9da4-8cff7b6a913f_019db50b.jpg?itok=8QACPg2N&amp;v=1791797398\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Taiwan-based tattoo artist Jimmy Shy and street-film photographer Yu Chang decided to travel to Hong Kong to document the city\u2019s fading post-war tattoo history, they agreed on one criterion: they would find their subjects only on the street.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe relied entirely on instinct,\u201d Shy says of the project, which started in 2023 but began life as casual phone photos years earlier. \u201cA lot of tattoos were hidden under clothing, so whenever we had a feeling that someone might have the kind of tattoo we were looking for, we first had to convince them to show us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The encounters were unpredictable. One construction worker demanded they help him carry cement before agreeing to be photographed. Another refused until Shy, 40, and Chang, 37, showed their own tattoos \u2013 triggering something akin to a competition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe lifted his shirt and said, \u2018Mine is bigger than yours!\u2019\u201d Shy remembers. \u201cHe had a huge old eagle tattoo on his body, and it was beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3370577\/how-hong-kongs-post-war-tattoo-scene-fused-sailor-art-chinese-imagery?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Taiwan-based tattoo artist Jimmy Shy and street-film photographer Yu Chang decided to travel to Hong Kong to document the city\u2019s fading post-war tattoo history,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1501,107,31567,3569,31568,5010,31566,11817,1373,1561],"class_list":["post-92520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-art","tag-chinese","tag-fused","tag-hong","tag-imagery","tag-kongs","tag-postwar","tag-sailor","tag-scene","tag-tattoo","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}