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Sacred Skin is today’s cover story of The Bangkok Post’s Brunch Magazine. Journalist Ezra Kyrill Erker writes that, “Aroon Thaewchatturat’s extraordinary pictures do more than capture the tattoos, they capture their wearers’ personalities, and perhaps even the energy invested in them by the designs.” The four page spread also features an interview with photographer Aroon […]
Continue ReadingThe feature spread of Sacred Skin, published in one of Spain’s most widely read newspapers last Sunday, is now available online. Spanish readers will be able to decypher the full text in the online version of Calameo, the paper’s weekend magazine.
Continue ReadingSacred Skin has garnered its first review on Amazon.co.uk. The very favorable review describes the book as “a glimpse into the spiritual heart of Thailand mostly denied to even frequent visitors to this complex country”.
Continue ReadingLooks like Thailand’s spirit tattoos are taking the world by storm. My new book on Sak Yant, Sacred Skin, with images by Aroon Thaewchatturat, has been featured alongside another upcoming title on the same subject, Sacred Tattoos of Thailand, by Joe Cummings (with images by Dan White), in the July issue of the Southeast Asia […]
Continue ReadingJoel Brinkley’s book Cambodia’s Curse – The Modern History of a Troubled Land is the first book to examine the venality of Cambodia’s current government. Ever since Vietnamese withdrawal (Vietnam liberated the country from the genocidal yoke of the Khmer Rouge in 1979) in 1989, Prime Minister Hun Sen and an assortment of allied and […]
Continue ReadingThe Sunday Magazine of Spanish newspaper El Mundo is running a beautiful six page spread on my new book, Sacred Skin, today! The paper also runs the largest Spanish language website in the world and our review will run there too.
Continue ReadingCat and Nat(Living the Thai Lifestyle), a popular Bangkok blog, covered last month’s dinner event the city’s art venue The Space, to help launch Sacred Skin, my new book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos.
Continue ReadingPhotographer Aroon Thaewchatturat signs a copy of our new book Sacred Skin for Roland Neveu at a recent launch event at The Space in Bangkok.
Continue ReadingYes, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and myself are extremely pleased to have Sacred Skin featured on July´s cover of Bangkok 101, the city´s high profile monthly magazine. The reviews that have been pouring in for our new book have been both numerous and incredibly positive, ranging from TIME Magazine to CNN and we could harldy have […]
Continue ReadingWhen I first traveled around Asia in the early 1990s, I collaborated with the British Library on a long term recording project of indigenous music from the region. Hundreds of hours of recordings from Pakistan to the Philippines resulted from these travels and they are now deposited with the British Library’s International Music Collection part […]
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