Present at the Bataclan, where she attended the concert of the group Eagles of Death Metal, Natasha survived the appalling attacks of November 13, 2015. Earlier, that same day, she had been tattooed… a cross dripping with blood!
"It was a bit like a premonitory tattoo," she smiles.
Convinced that this motif had acted as a protection, the young woman has since become a professional tattoo artist.
“It is a testimony of a moment of life”
Natasha has already tattooed several people present at the concert: “I did a lot of band-aids, Eagles of Death Metal logos or that kind of thing.
I think that people who got away with it and got a tattoo, it's like saying to themselves: "Well, I lived that thing, it's in me".
When you write, when you ink, you leave an eternal mark on bodies and it's a testimony to a moment in life,” she explains.
Our "neo-tattoo artist" testifies alongside 20 other survivors in the book by photographer Olivier Roller,
Bataclan, memories
(La Manufacture de livres editions).
“It's a story of what happened to us, but it makes people aware of… the duration.
Precisely, seven years later, where are we?
How do people rebuild themselves?
The fact that there are different portraits is interesting, because we all have different backgrounds”.
Discover his amazing journey in this video from our partner Brut.
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