Sacred tattoos in the Nikkei Asian Review
I just wrote a new article on Thailand’s sacred tattoos in the Nikkei Asian Review. Photographs by Aroon Thaewchatturat.
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Sacred Skin in Rise Tattoo Magazine
I am interviewed in this month’s Rise Tattoo Magazine from France. Big thanks to Dom Pichard and Laure Siegel.
Continue ReadingSak Yant and Sacred Skin in The Chiang Mai City News
Jennifer Jerome interviews me about Thailand’s sacred tattoos for The Chiang Mai City News this week. Read her story Ink of the Gods: The Myth and Magic of Sak Yant here. And check out my bestselling book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, Sacred Skin, with incredible photography by Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred Skin is available in good […]
Continue ReadingAroon Thaewchatturat talks about Sacred Skin @ The.Me
“I tried to capture not just the devotees’ tattoos but who they were. My models were rather shy at first. Most of them were male and taking their clothes off for a female photographer was definitely a challenge for them. But after I had taken a few shots, their confidence increased and they conveyed a […]
Continue ReadingSacred Tattoos and Secret Lifestyles
Last month, we had a visit from veteran tattooist Bruce Bart and his wife Jennifer. They were on an Asian road trip and were looking for a tattoo master in Thailand. Their search, quite an adventure, eventually led them to Sacred Skin and to the house I share with my wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. This […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin Reviewed by 60 Minutes Producer Danny Keens!!!
Sacred Skin receives a great review from Danny Keens, Producer of 60 Minutes, on Amazon. Wonderful!!! When I stumbled upon this print collaboration between author Tom Vater and photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat I was taken completely by surprised and totally mesmerized. You see, I’m not the sort of person who would have considered a tattoo and […]
Continue ReadingA Return of The Illustrated Kill Convention – Sak Yant Reloaded in The Orissa Post
The Orissa Post in India has rerun my very first story on Thailand’s sacred tattoos. The Illustrated Kill Convention originally ran in The Fortean Times (amazingly that story is still online but the first paragraphs are missing, eating by time or digital weasels, one assumes) in the UK in 2003 and subsequently in, dare I […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin in 8 Page Spread in Taiwan Tattoo Magazine
Taiwan’s tattoo magazine Extreme Tattoo featured an 8 page spread on Sacred Skin in its December Issue!!! The spread includes many images from the book and an interview with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred tattoos, called sak yant in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin second edition a bestseller in Thailand!!!
Sacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos continues to sell well. Photographed by Aroon Thaewchatturat and written by myself, the book was originally published in July 2011. Copies of the book’s second edition, hot off the press, are out now, as Australian journalist Flip Prior noticed while out shopping in Bangkok […]
Continue ReadingIm Tempel der tätowierenden Mönche im ORF30 Minutes of Sacred Skin on Austrian radio!!!
In ein thailändisches Kloster, ins Wat Bang Phra, kommen Gläubige, um sich tätowieren zu lassen. Buddhistische Mönche übertragen mit den heiligen Tätowierungen spirituelle Kräfte. Dem Volksglauben nach mobilisieren diese magischen Tatoos verborgene Energien. Ernst Weber besuchte vor einigen Jahren das Kloster mit dem deutschen Schriftsteller Tom Vater und dessen Frau Aroon. Aroon Thaewchatturat ist Ethnobotanikerin […]
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