There's an Indigenous form of tattooing based in the Philippines called batok, dating back to pre-colonial days. Natalia Roxas is a practitioner based in Hawaii. She calls it a spiritual ceremony.

Each tattoo is designed around an individual's life story The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly ...

Leah Anifowose and Jet Catacutan are two young tattoo artists in Calgary who never imagined they'd one day make a living doing something their families initially strongly disapproved of. But while ...

The magazine also praised the artist on Instagram for how her works symbolises the “strength and beauty of the Filipino spirit”. “Heralded as the last mambabatok of her generation, she has imprinted ...

Whang-od might be one of the coolest people on Earth. The 103-year-old Filipino tattoo artist is keeping an ancient art alive. Whang-od is a mambabatok or traditional Kalinga tattooist. She creates ...

MANILA, Philippines — A documentary about 106-year-old Indigenous tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od and Philippine tattoo culture, including the traditional batok that Whang-od is known for, is in production ...

A Filipino tattoo artist who has been carrying out the practice for more than nine decades has become Vogue's new cover star at the age of 106. Apo Whang-Od, also known as Maria Oggay, is a master at ...

The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly 500 years on, tribal tattooing is almost extinct. Aya Lowe ...

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