By Evgenia Novozhenina and Alexander Paramoshin

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Like a piano player moving up a scale, Igor Mikhaylov runs his gloved hands along his client’s upturned arm, feeling out precisely where he should place his stencil.

The 38-year-old tattoo artist, who is legally blind, is in high demand.

“This is something that impresses and thrills you,” said a woman who gave her name only as Alexandra. She had just received a tattoo saying “Love” in Braille from Mikhaylov at a tattoo studio off Moscow’s trendy Novy Arbat Avenue last month.

Mikhaylov began to lose his eyesight at the age of eight, the result of a genetic illness. He can perceive gradations in light and can make out the contours of objects. He still remembers what the world around him looks like.

His customers find his

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