An Oud Maker In Cairo

• Photographer
  Patricia Mora
• Agency / Studio
  Patricia Mora Photography
• Technical Info
  Nikon D750, Nikkor 24-120 1:4, Nikon Sb-800, Iso 400, 1/125, F/6.3
• Photo Date
  September 2024

The oud maker Sami Afifi works at his workshop located at street level in Downtown Cairo. He is considered one of the most skilled oud manufacturers in Egypt whose craft comes from a family tradition of over 100 years. While visiting him, he was kind enough to let me photograph him as he was working assembling the resonance box and the soundboard of one of the ouds he was working on at that moment. The street was recently cleaned, a puddle of water in front of the workshop caught his reflection creating an aesthetic atmosphere of a singular craftsman at work.

Born in Barcelona in 1983. While doing a degree in History, specialized in Egyptology, she discovered her passion for photography and studied photography and professional lighting. She combined both passions for a living, working as an archaeological photographer in Egypt, with national and international archaeological projects in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan since 2006, and photographing daily life in Egypt during her working stays in the country. She has exhibited in Jaén (Spain), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Cairo (Egypt).