A close-up view of his work. — AFP
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 said at his booth at a Bangkok tattoo expo, where fascinated attendees paused to film his work.
