Natividad Sugguiyao

The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Jake Verzosa, who both laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines. For nearly a thousand years, the Kalinga women have proudly worn these lace-like patterns, or batok, on their skin as symbols of beauty, wealth, stature, and...