Pre-Production: Change

I have been thinking that my portfolio will be environmental/editorial portraits. So my final photo will be an environmental portrait of a tattoo artist in his shop. The reason for picking a tattoo artist is because his line of work means causing permanent changes to peoples bodies/appearance/self-esteem/wallet. I did not necessarily want to display the change in the photograph. I did think of a before and after portrait of someone after a tattoo to reflect change but that is not the route I really wanted to go with this.

I contacted my old friend Manny and will be shooting at his shop while it is twilight hour outside, ideally his shop would have windows to reflect this. As a side I'm hoping to get him in the studio for a simple portrait in black and white.