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Living Ink: The Art of Tattoos
25 Jun, 2022
- 30 Oct, 2022
Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea
26 Dec, 2009
- 06 Jun, 2010
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Chris Rainier's fascination with ritual masks began in the mid-1980s, when, during a photography trip to New Guinea, he was confronted by a tribesman adorned with feathers from a bird of paradise.
Chris Rainier has seen bare flesh etched by the crudest of implements: old nails, sharpened bamboo sticks, barracuda teeth.