Cultural Documentation and Exploration

Alongside her self-portrait practice, Esther’s lens turns outward — toward place, heritage, and belonging. Her ongoing documentary work reflects her Anglo-Iranian roots and her evolving relationship with Mauritius, exploring how people, environment, and memory shape one another. Fascinated by the idea of home, she photographs domestic and cultural spaces as living expressions of identity — quiet testaments to personality, livelihood, and value.

In Iran, Esther documents landscapes, people, and architecture as she reconnects with a culture and history from which she grew up separated, tracing the poetics of absence and return. In Mauritius, where she has spent long periods raising her children within her husband’s family, she draws inspiration from the island’s layered heritage and the resilience of its people. Through colour, light, and texture, her images become visual poems — living archives of continuity, belonging, and the shared human instinct to remember.