Aya Okawa

Photographer, Visual Anthropologist

Musical Instrument Master Workshop

Follow Hire

Location: San Francisco, California.

Nationality: American

Biography: Aya Okawa is an award-winning aerial and environmental photographer and visual anthropologist who enjoys shooting landscape transformation, abstract patterns, and documenting the interaction of natural and human systems. Aya's work has been... MORE

PLAY

STOP

GRID

FULL

LOVE

Public Story

Musical Instrument Master Workshop

Copyright Aya Okawa 2023

Date of Work Dec 1969 - Dec 1969

Updated Apr 2022

Location San Pablo, CA

Topics Art, Arts & Entertainment, Community, Culture, Documentary, Essays, Music, Photography

Summary

Short series of images documenting the craftsmanship and workshop of the multi-instrumentalist and woodworking master, Gari Hegedus, as he performs repairs on instruments such as the 'oud (of North Africa & Turkey) and the tar (Iran).

Workshop of the multi-instrumentalist and woodworking master, Gari Hegedus, as he performs repairs on instruments such as the 'oud (of North Africa & Turkey) and the tar (Iran).

In these shots, he is replacing the shamsiyya, the decorative circle on the face of the 'oud, and replacing the sheep skin across the mouth of the tar.