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Tom Vater is a freelance writer working in southern and Southeast Asia. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including the Asia Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, Marie Claire, Penthouse, and many others. He is an explorer and adventurer, and has travelled on foot across the Himalayas, been diving with sharks in the Philippines, spent time with nomads, pilgrims and soldiers, secret agents, pirates, hippies, policemen, and prophets. Aroon Thaewchatturat has been a freelance photographer since 2004. Her features have appeared in magazines such as GEO and The Far Eastern EconoReview, while her images have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time, The Financial Times, and Lonely Planet amongst others.
<p>By Andrew Marshall Monday, May 23, 2011 - TIME Magazine (Asia Edition) <br> Read more: http: //www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2071020,00.html#ixzz1MpMZ1QpH<p>The introduction to Sacred Skin, Tom Vater and Aroon Thaewchatturat's new tribute to Thailand's sak yant, or sacred tattoos, begins with an agonized exclamation: Uaaahh! So it should. While modern tattoos are efficiently (though not exactly painlessly) applied with an electric machine, sak yant are hand-hammered into your wincing body with a long needle.<p>But no pain, no gain -- and, if you believe the enthusiasts, the rewards are out of this world. Devotees credit sak yant with warding off sickness, attracting lovers and helping them emerge unscathed from car crashes. A housewife caught in last year's crackdown on antigovernment protesters in Bangkok tells the authors, People around me got shot but my tattoo protected me. <p> Sak yant are etched onto both soul and skin, as Thai photographer Aroon's p
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