Tom Vater

I have been interviewed by Marco Ferrarese about my book Sacred Skin on the website of travel writer Rolf Potts.
Read the full interview here.

February 10th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, book, Hans Kemp, Marco Ferrarese, Monkey Rock World, review, Rolf Potts, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, for sale at Phnom Penh Airport, Monument Books.
But who’s the dodgy looking guy on the left?

February 9th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, book, Cambodia, display, Hans Kemp, Phnom Penh, Phom Penh Airport, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, Steve Jobs, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Cambodia, Thailand | Leave a comment

Published in November’s issue of Geographical Magazine, magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, was Bangkok based photographer’s Luke Duggleby’s feature  on the reviving of Cambodia’s pepper industry after it was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. I traveled to Kampot with Luke to write the story.
One of Cambodia’s best known exports prior to [...]

February 1st, 2012 | Tags: agriculture, Cambodia, Cambodian, economy, feature story, Geographical Magazine, industry, Kampot, Kampot Pepper, Luke Duggleby, pepper, product, Royal Geographical Society, spice, Tom Vater, UK | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

In the words of Chinese traveler Chou Ta Kuan who lived in Angkor for a year in the 13th century: “When the king goes out, troops lead the escort; then come flags, banners and music. Palace women, numbering from three to five hundred, wearing clothes decorated with flowers, with flowers in their [...]

January 31st, 2012 | Tags: Cambodia, Chou Ta Kuan, guide book, Moon, Moon Angkor Wat, Moon Guide, quote, Research, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Cambodia | 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

A Bangkok Post review of my new book Sacred Skin - Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos, co-authored with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, has just been reposted on the Awesome Tattoos blog.
The review includes an interview with Aroon.
Photo taken at Bangkok International Airport.

January 22nd, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Awesome Tattoos, Bangkok, book, Hans Kemp, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

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January 17th, 2012 | Tags: ARD, Aung San Suu Kyi, Beitrag, Burma, Deutschland, Freedom Film Festival;, Kurzfilm, Marc Eberle, Myanmar, Tom Vater, Zaganar | Category: Burma | Leave a comment

Floating somewhere between the Hooghly River and Massive Attack, Tritha is a music ensemble from Kolkata.
The band played a couple of shows at The Space in Bangkok last month  and performed an exalted mix of Indian ragas and folk-ways shuffled around sensuously, with a dash of trip hop thrown in.  Shades of Bjork [...]

January 16th, 2012 | Tags: Bangkok, India, India feminism, Indian band, Indian contemporary music, Indian music, kali's Forest, Kolkata, PaGli, Ritika Singh, Thailand, The Space, Tom Vater, Trip Hop, Tritha, Tritha Sinha, West Bengal | Category: India, Thailand | Comments (2)

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 Sacred [...]

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