Ajarn Sua runs a knife across the neck of a devotee after completing a tattoo. The ritual is said to protect the subject from harm by empowering the tattoo. Can a tattoo stop a bullet? Some people ...
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 ...