Mohan Gurung – Tom Vater

Nepal Earthquake – One Year On

April 25, 2016March 2, 2019tomLeave a Comment

One year ago today I got caught up in the Nepal Earthquake. I was covering with 5th international Nepal tattoo convention with Laure Siegel and Dom Pichard. The first big quake took place as we were interviewing tattooists in the ballroom of the Yak and Yeti Hotel. We spent the next four days wondering through […]

Mohan Gurung – Nepal’s Tattooist Extraordinaire

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015tomLeave a Comment

My story on Mohan Gurung, one of Nepal’s greatest tattoo artists and an incredibly kind and generous man to boot. I interviewed Mohan both before and after the Nepal earthquake which coincided with Nepal’s fifth international tattoo convention in late April. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about the quake and the […]

The Nepal Tattoo Convention in RISE TATTOO

July 30, 2015September 6, 2016tomLeave a Comment

Journalist Laure Siegel, photographer Dom Pichard and myself produced 16 pages of features in this month’s edition of RISE TATTOO, France’s #1 tattoo magazine on the 5th International Nepal Tattoo Convention and the Nepali earthquake which took place during the convention weekend in late April. The reportages included a portrait of hobo tattooist Chris Powers, […]