HESTER

"I work with female models in staged settings, to create a world without any logical flow or narrative, which is similar to our dreams. During my twenty years of career, 2 photobooks have been published: NOISE (2008) and HESTER (2021). The works included in those publications are not from 2 separate series. They are a continuation in which you can find my development, transformation and also what is consistent. In HESTER my photographs from 2008 to 2018 are bundled together. HESTER is the title of one of the photographs featured and originally taken from a character in the novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. I am drawn to this particular fictional female, Hester, because of her extreme nature; she is an extrovert, aggressive and chaotic, but also sensitive, loving and charming. With a lot of affection, I could call all the women in my photographs ‘Hester’. The works submitted were created after the publication of this book, still in the line of my previous works. These anonymous women in my images are balancing on a thin line between the childlike and the sensual, the fragile and the destructive, the playful and the tragic."