Foundational Projects
These early bodies of work established the conceptual and visual language that would later evolve into hester’s photographic systems—exploring architecture, perception, organic form, and critical inquiry.
Traces of Perception
A photographic system built through accumulation, scale, and duration to examine how perception forms over time.
Concrete Perspective
A photographic system investigating the relationship between construction, landscape, and the emotional logic of the built environment.
Architectures Éphémères
A photographic system exploring impermanence and structure, where architecture is understood as a temporal condition rather than a fixed form.
Orchidacea
A photographic system centered on organic form and symmetry, examining fragility, repetition, and the tension between nature and control.
Embracing the Kynic, Not the Cynic
A photographic system engaging critical inquiry and ethical resistance, using repetition and reduction to question contemporary forms of belief..
These foundational works establish photography as a system rather than a medium.
Each project translates an external structure—perceptual, architectural, biological, or philosophical—into visual form through repetition, variation, and duration.