Bangkok, March 17, 2025 (AFP) - Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark

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2025-03-17

Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh. "I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo palour," he told AFP in his booth at a Bangkok tattoo expo, where fascinated attendees paused to film his work. "I like art so I like to tattoo." Tattooing is a centuries-old tradition in Thailand, where tattoo parl......

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