I don’t know the exact reasons for tattooing tears on one’s face. Sometimes it is for someone you have killed or sometimes it is when a friend or family member is murdered. I looked it up and it’s hard to be sure what these tattoos mean exactly. They do mean a death for each teardrop…

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Published by Matt Weber

Photographing NYC for 25 years, six of them while driving a New York City taxi. Trying very hard to capture the city as life unfolds, meaning I never stage any of my photos! Also I am a close confidant of the immortal Dave Beckerman, (quintessential NYC photographer) and owner of the first photography blog in the known universe.

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