Ester came to photography through a job as a Violin specialist and Workshop coordinator at an instruments dealers shop. After a few years taking photos of instruments for the shop, she started this personal project "at the hands of a luthier" at the dawn of the pandemic. Trying to show the art, sometimes delicacy and always skilled work of the experts who bring our most precious tools, our instruments, to new life.
"The little things" is a side project about those small and curious items and tools that now and then, you find on a luthier's workbench.
Acknowledgement
Thank you to all restorers that had invited me into their workshops while they were working allowing me, not only to take photos for this project, but also for the nice and kind welcome and the insight into their art.
Luthiers: Ander Arroitajauregi, Carlos Barros, Colin Cross, Piotr Kulcenty, Antoni Ruschil, Juliane Schanzenbach, John Sydenham, Florian Bailly, BELE (pupils and teachers at Basque school of violin making)
Special thanks to those who offered me their time and opinion while building this website. To Piaf Knight I am in particular debt as she came up with a beautiful name for this project and to Florian Bailly as he unknowingly sparked the flame of photography around instruments repairs.
Others: Piaf Knight, Celine Lepicard, Juliane Schanzenbach, Florian Bailly.
