Jake verzosa: the last tattooed women of kallinga: Steidl book award asia 2017, hardcover/jake verzosa

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The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Filipino photographer Jake Verzosa (born 1979) that lament and celebrate a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines.

For nearly 1,000 years the Kalinga women have proudly worn these lace-like patterns, or batok , on their skin as symbols of beauty, wealth, stature and fortitude.

Applied as part of a painful ritual, the vivi.