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Niki Norberg

Black and grey photorealism

Wicked Tattoo, Gothenburg, Sweden

Niki Norberg is a Swedish tattooer from Gothenburg regarded as one of the leading practitioners of black-and-grey photorealism. He has tattooed since 2001 and works at Wicked Tattoo in Gothenburg.

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Norberg has tattooed professionally since 2001 and is known for highly detailed, near-photographic black-and-grey portraiture rendered in soft, smoky gradients with strong contrast, work that has circulated widely online and helped popularize hyperrealistic tattooing. Around 2007 he was involved, with Heidi Hay, in organizing the Gothenburg International Ink Festival, and his work later became associated with Carl Lofqvist's Wicked Tattoo studio in Gothenburg, where he currently tattoos. He is consistently named among the most in-demand black-and-grey realism artists internationally and is repeatedly described as award-winning.

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