The 6th Siberian Tattoo Festival at Podzemka Loft Park in Novosibirsk, Russia on August 20, 2017. Tattoo lovers have been showing off their impressive inkings at annual conventions in LA and Russia this weekend. This year marks the sixth Siberian Tattoo Festival in Novosibirsk, Russia, while stateside tattoo fanatics have been celebrating all things body-art at the LA Tattoo Convention in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)

Audrey Tautou poses at a photo call during The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2013 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)

The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive close to a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to their international renown.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is hugged by children during his visit to Samjiyon County in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang November 28, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/KCNA)

A contestant performs in wooden Pujllay dance shoes known as “ojotas”, in a contest to elect the Queen of Great Power, in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, May 24, 2019. The largest religious festival in the Andes choses its queen in a tight contest to head the Festival of the Lord Jesus of the Great Power, mobilizing thousands of dancers and more than 4,000 musicians into the streets of La Paz. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)

Lucia Moreno, 28, participates in a Miss Tattoo contest during a tattoo convention in the Andalusian capital of Seville February 14, 2015. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)

Wim Delvoye is a notorious tattoo artist, who became famous when he started tattooing live pigs. He first began in 1997 and after animal rights activists found out about what he was doing, he had to move to China to continue his business. There is nothing special about the tattoos that Wim Delvoye creates, they look mediocre at best, and the only reason why he’s famous is his acts of animal cruelty. Nevertheless, Wim states that the pigs feel just fine and are well fed and taken care off. Full anesthesia is used to ensure that the pig doesn’t feel pain during the course of the whole procedure. During this time three tattoo artists work on the tattoo simultaneously to complete it as quickly as possible. Skins of those pigs are then sold for as much as £50k a piece.

American photographer Austin Tott created the series ‘Tiny Tattoos’ that matches miniature hand-drawn tattoos with the backgrounds from which they draw visual reference. A small bicycle is placed in its urban environment, little trees and envelopes find their bigger brothers and a tiny fox is put in the context of wooden logs.