Armenian Patchwork

The making of a tattoo, to worry or not

January 29th, 2008 by anush

A month or so ago I went looking for a tattoo artist whom I could photograph at work, because I needed a close-up picture of that. I photographed the process, the beginning of it, and want to show it to you now. Gago, who is 20, makes a tattoo of a crying woman on Erik’s back.
To me at that point, maybe now too, tattoo artists seemed people who should be approached with great seriousness, because they are people who change other people for ever. I asked Gago how he felt about that. “Yes, there is a level of responsibility,” Gago said to me, and looked calm enough for me not to worry too much any more.

I approached Erik with another question, why the crying woman. Erik said he liked the image. So probably lots of people aren’t all that uneasy about tattoos, or deciding which to make. To me this decision making process is extremely hard and so far I don’t plan it. But the process was pretty interesting to watch.

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