Hester (b. 1964) was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Currently she resides and works in Miami, Florida. Her most recent work focuses on abstract photography of urban landscapes.

In 1989 Hester graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Environmental Design. Soon after she worked in Mexico with architect Enrique Norten of TEN ARCHITECTS. Alongside Norten, Hester’s interest in architecture intensified and influenced her photographic practice. Over the course of her career, Hester has captured monumental buildings and city highway paths, probing the limits of photographs as architectural elements.

Hester’s photographs are interjections; they open space through tunnel views or compartmentalize it through images of massive columns, for example. Though Hester is well known for her explorations regarding relationships between photography and livable space, she is also a successful fashion photographer.

From 1991 to 2001, Hester worked her own commercial photography studio in Bogotá. She designed and created sets for fashion editorials on couture fashion, accessories, and celebrity portraits. Her fashion photographs were frequently published in diverse editorials throughout the country and international publications as well. Eventually, however, Colombia’s political instability prompted her to close the studio and move to Florida, where she began to study Photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. After mastering digital equipment and editing programs, Hester graduated with a degree in Photography from the Art Institute in 2003.

Based in Florida, Hester focuses on conceptual photography and continues to photograph fashion catalogs, high-end portraiture and features for architectural editorials, including Florida’s Design Miami Home & Décor and South

Florida’s Luxe Interiors and Design. Her solo shows have been exhibited at Caridi Gallery, Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, and O. Ascanio Gallery in Wynwood. Recently her work was featured in Art Wynwood (2013), Pinta Miami (2014 and 2015), LA ART (2016) art fairs and Vitri/Living With Art during Art Basel Miami 2017.

Hester has served on the board of directors of South Florida American Society of Media Photographers is a member of The President’s Ambassador’s Council of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She is current Parsons Miami Alumni Chapter Chair, and is an active docent at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

Hester has been a candidate for teaching positions at several institutions, however she prefers one on one mentoring. Her protégés have been accepted to prestigious institutions such as Parsons, Pratt, The Art Institute of Chicago, University of Michigan, RISD, and NYU amongst others.