“….this clearly-written, entertaining treatise is packed with fascinating facts and descriptions of every aspect of this time-honored art form. But it’s the photos that steal the show.”
By Mitchell January 9, 2012
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“… Sacred Skin is an equal collaboration between author Tom Vater and photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. The seductive and intimate images are as important to this book as the text. While Vater writes about Sak Yant, Thaewchatturat’s portraits show the complexity of an art form that radically transforms those who choose the ink. .” By Scott Rothstein at the Art Found Out Blog
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Read the review by Ron Gluckman in The Wall Street Journal, “Baring Southeast Asia’s Sacred Tattoos“, in tandem with a book at another soon to be published title on the same subject by Joe Cummings and Dan White.
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Courrier International, Oct. 6 - 2011.
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Prediction Magazine in the UK: “top-notch eye candy and fascinating insights…”
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This week a 5 minute piece of Sacred Skin on the website of “Die Zeit“, one of Germany’s most respected newspapers.
http://video.zeit.de/video/1167863488001
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For all fans in Europe: French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on Sacred Skin, on September 17th! The program will feature interviews with the book’s authors Aroon Thaewchatturat and Tom Vater, as well as photographer James Nachtwey and renowned tattoo master Achan Neng Onnut.
Metropolis will be on at 11.30 pm and the program will be repeated on September 18th at 5.45pm.
http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/metropolis-4113086.html
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“…extraordinary pictures do more than capture the tattoos, they capture their wearers’ personalities…” Ezra Kyrill Erker, The Bangkok Post
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“…the text and photographs are absolutely fascinating.” William Darragh, Fortean Times, UK
Issue FT278 (August 2011)
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Bob Baxter from Tattoo Road Trip reviews Sacred Skin “the photos that steal the show”.
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