The New Zealand Tattoo & Art Festival returned to the TSB Stadium in New Plymouth at the weekend after being cancelled for the past two years because of Covid-19.
Thousands of people visited the stadium to check out the tattoo artists, be tattooed themselves and enjoy the food, music and BMX and motocross demonstrations.
Photographer Andy Macdonald went along for a look. Here’s what he found.
Palmerston North’s Brydee Cuthbertson gets a tattoo every time she comes to the festival.
Anastasia Storie-cole, left, of Hamilton, came to check out
Australasia’s biggest tattoo event.
While most of the tattoo artists used a gun, there were some using more traditional techniques with a chisel, blades and a small mallet.
Sam Rulz, of Vienna Electric, came back from Austria just for the festival.
Tau Pakaua, from East Cape, was getting a tattoo done the traditional way.
Siarn Engels, from Newcastle, at the weekend’s tattoo festival.
Peyton Reeve came from Melbourne for the event.
Mimsy Gleeson, from Brisbane, enjoys the show.
Many of those who attended got tattoos.