“My brother Milad and I started designing and doing tattoos about eight years ago. It has been our passion and also a way to make some money. It didn’t used to be such a big problem and technically, there is no law against being a tattoo artist in Iran. But within the last years, we got into more and more trouble. One day, the police came and looked for reasons to charge me. When they found alcohol, I was arrested. Milad went into hiding before they could put him into prison, too.”