The magazine also praised the artist on Instagram for how her works symbolises the “strength and beauty of the Filipino spirit”. “Heralded as the last mambabatok of her generation, she has imprinted ...

Surrounded by lush rice terraces and undulating landscape, the mountain village of Buscalan is home to just 200 or so households. It rests in the Kalinga province of the Philippines and is about a ...

Vogue Philippines released its April issue on Friday and its newest cover model is an 106-year-old indigenous Kalinga woman, Apo Whang-Od, also known as Maria Oggay. Whang-Od, from the small mountain ...

Talilo Marfil and Apo Whang-od in "Waves" video. Image courtesy of Cruz Media. Facebook might still be good for something after all. Back in 2019, Portland rapper Talilo Marfil connected with ...

BUSCALAN, PHILIPPINES • Whang-Od, 107, has witnessed more than a century of change in her remote village in the Philippine northern hills. But the greatest changes have come because of her, the ...

Buscalan, Philippines (CNN) — The first sound I heard upon reaching Buscalan was that of heaving and panting. A group of us had just completed a steep climb to the remote village, which is tucked deep ...

Travel deep into the Philippines to meet the world’s oldest tattoo artist, a living legend who has preserved an ancient tradition through skill, spirit, and cultural pride. This documentary-style ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Vogue's latest cover model is shattering expectations in more ways than one. Apo Whang-Od is a tattoo artist from Buscalan, a mountain village in The Philippines' Kalinga province.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It’s a Filipino tradition that dates back thousands of years. And it can be found right here in Hawaii — at Natalia Roxas’ home in Waialua. Roxas’ is a practitioner of the ...

Filipino tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od has become the oldest person to ever appear on the cover of Vogue at the age of 106. Vogue Philippines announced last week that Whang-Od would be the magazine’s ...