Fakir Musafar: American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure
Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist and early artist of the modern primitive movement.
He worked with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension.
Fakir Musafar | |
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| Born | Roland Loomis August 10, 1930 |
| Died | August 1, 2018 (aged 87) Menlo Park, California, U.S. |
| Spouse | Cléo Dubois |
| Website | www.Fakir.org |
In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer. He died from the disease on August 1, 2018 in Menlo Park, California, aged 87.
References
Other websites
- National Geographic documentary Taboo Archived 2006-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Biography
- Body Modification E-zine interview Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Excerpt of interview - Discusses modern primitives, from RE/Search
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