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My new book, Sacred Skin, has been reviewed in the forthcoming issue of Bizarre Magazine, available at all quality newsagents in the UK today! Photograph taken by Kraig Lieb at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport last week.
It´s pretty rare my partner in crime, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and I open our home to show our work. But this Sunday, we had a great day having lunch and talking things Asian with American artist Elizabeth Briel who paints, photographs and works with paper, focusing on Asia. Like me, Elizabeth is a committed transnational [...]
I have just come to the end of an extended stay in India. I have been living in an old crumbling palace, the infamous and incredible Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, facing the Bay of Bengal, hanging with my co-conspirator Aroon Thaewchatturat. Puri, once a hippy haven for Japanese drop-outs, is now an all but [...]
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German broadsheet Die Zeit has produced a short film on Thailand´s sacred tattoos and my new book Sacred Skin. The short film features interviews with James Nachtwey, Aroon Thaewchatturat and myself. Watch it online!
Get Addicted To reviews Sacred Skin online! Read the full review here.
French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on my new book, Sacred Skin on September 17th! Metropolis will be on at 11.30pm. The program will be repeated on September 18th at 5.45pm. Visit the book’s official website!
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Miki Vialetto in Tattoo Life issue 72 calls my new publication, Sacred Skin, an “essential book” that “shows us that (a) tattoo still today is not simply a decoration for the body but a re-interpretation of the soul.”