‘SHOW ME YOUR HANDS’

Show Me Your Hands is a long-term documentary project focused on atypical, tattooed hands—each one a fragment of personal history etched into the skin. Often described as the visible part of the brain, the hand is both tough and extraordinarily sensitive, capable of astonishing precision and expression. Our hands are tools of communication, connection, and identity.

Throughout history, tattoos have served many purposes: rites of passage, symbols of rank and status, spiritual and religious devotion, marks of bravery, expressions of fertility, pledges of love, charms of protection, and even signs of punishment—branding outcasts, slaves, and convicts. Today, people continue to tattoo their hands for artistic, cosmetic, sentimental, spiritual, and personal reasons, as a marker of belonging or a declaration of individuality.

Show Me Your Hands seeks to reveal the narratives carried in these marks. Each portrait becomes a window into a life, a culture, or a moment in time, celebrating the hand as both canvas and storyteller, where the body itself becomes a living archive of experience.