Inking big: Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark

Nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn, a Thai child tattoo artist works on his uncleís tattoo at the 2025 Thailand Tattoo Expo in Bangkok on March 15, 2025. Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun in child-sized hands swamped by adult-sized surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man’s upper thigh. (AFP)