Reporting from Bangkok, Thailand — Atjima Khunnok has so many tattoos that she has to count them on her fingers: deities, sacred peaks, parallel rows of ancient Khmer script unfurling across her arms ...
An unusual tattoo draws the eye in a photo of a member of the Sungai Utik Dayak Iban tribe from West Kalimantan. Both his shoulders display traditional floral tattoos, but on his chest, there are ...
“I want people to know that traditional Chinese landscapes, still-life paintings and portraits can also be tattoos,” says Beijing-based tattoo artist Chen Jie. Although still largely taboo, tattoos ...
When Elicia Santo Tomas prepared to move back home to Guam, after spending the last 15 years in San Francisco, she marked this period of her life in the most permanent way possible: with a tattoo. She ...
Arsaniq Deer has been an artist all her life. She works with watercolours, sewing, embroidery and — more recently — traditional Inuit tattoos, or kakiniit. "Inuit have always had tattoos, since time ...
Here’s a burning question: What will your next tattoo be? A rose for your mother? A clipper ship crashing through your ribs? A panther roaring over your heart? The answer is in the flash on the walls, ...