Tattoo Odyssey

"Travelling around the globe, Chris Rainier has spent two decades documenting the ancient arts of tattooing, piercing and scarification. In a new film, Tattoo Odyssey, he photographs the Mentawai people of Indonesia, whose spider-web-like tattoos echo the shapes of the forest; their lofty goal is to anchor the soul.

"They say, ‘This is who I am, and what I have done.'"