Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man’s upper thigh. “I want to ...

Napat’s father Nattawut Sangtong said he introduced his son – who goes by the nickname “Knight” – to the craft of tattooing to swerve the pitfalls of contemporary childhood.

Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man’s upper thigh. “I want to be a ...