“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. “I like art so I like to tattoo.

Nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn, a Thai child tattoo artist works on his uncle s tattoo at the 2025 Thailand Tattoo Expo in Bangkok. Picture: AFP/Manan Vatsyayana Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun ...