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Four images by Aroon Thaewchatturat from our book Sacred Skin currently grace a wall in our home. Achan Neng Onnut has added yant and blessings to each photograph.

February 19th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bangkok, Hans Kemp, image, photograph, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, tattoo images, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Yesterday, Achan Neng Onnut, a Sak Yant tattoo master who supported the research of my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, celebrated Wai Khru Day. During the course of the day, hundreds of his devotees visited his home in Bangkok to pay their respects to the master and [...]

January 29th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Hans Kemp, James Nachtwey, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, Wai Khru, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Achan Neng Onnut, one of several tattoo masters featured in my recent book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, Sak Yant, has posted a number of images of the shoot for two documentaries on the book. Check out the images here. Director Marc Eberle shot an 8 minute docu on [...]

January 15th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte TV, Asia, Bangkok, book, Die Zeit, documentary, Hans Kemp, James Nachtwey, Marc Eberle, Metropolis, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Lard Yao Peter travels and tattoos. With long steel needles. Peter learned his trade in Lard Yao Prison, also known as Klong Prem or the Bangkok Hilton, Thailand’s notoriously infamous jail, where he spent some time in the 1990s. Spiegel TV has produced an interesting documentary on this extraordinary German. Obviously, the film is in [...]

January 15th, 2012 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Andreas Nebeling, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, Bangkok Hilton, book, Die Zeit, Germany, Hans Kemp, heilige Tättowierungen, James Nachtwey, Klong Prem Prison, Lard Yao Peter, Marc Eberle, Meike Fries, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, Spiegel TV, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment