Tattoo making in progress: Filling, in Delhi

From the archive record

Abhijeet Dhaila is a tattoo artist in India, New Delhi. In this video he is working on an abstract tattoo of a hummingbird. The tattoo needle is often said to inject ink beneath the skin, but this can be misleading. Tattoo needles are not hypodermic needles. They are more like pins, thin metal rods with pointed ends,which shove ink beneath the skin. They are almost always used in groups, with different shapes and densities of needle groupings for different purposes. The groups of needles needed for a particular job are soldered onto a bar in the tattoo machine. The machine actually drives the bar, rather than the needles themselves. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South