HCP Instructors’ Achievements
Please take a moment to review and celebrate the professional achievements of the leading photography practitioners we are proud to call HCP Instructors.
This webpage is updated periodically with current and upcoming exhibitions, publications, books, awards, and various other accomplishments.
Awards
RAQUEL NATALICCHIO (Recipient): "Best of the West" Journalism contest and grants program, First Place for News Photography, March 2025
JON EVANS (Juror): 10x10 Photobooks Research Grants. Award winners announced on June 16, 2025.
ALEXA BECKER (Juror): "Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2025" German Photography Book Award 2025. Awards Ceremony takes place on November 23, 2025.
Exhibitions
AUSTIN CULLEN (Two-Person exhibition with Sarah Jentsch): "A Natural History (Built to be Seen)", FLATS (Houston, TX), July 25, 2025 - October 2025
RAQUEL NATALICCHIO (Solo): "Al Otro Lado", Houston Public Library (Houston,TX), June 14, 2025 - February 28, 2026
DEBORAH FEINGOLD (Group): "20&20 A Lens of Her Own", ANU Museum (Tel Aviv, Israel), June 5, 2025 - January, 2027
R.J. KERN (Solo): "Ethereal Echoes", Lakewood Cemetery Welcome Center (Minneapolis, MN), July 15 - September 1, 2025
RAQUEL NATALICCHIO (Group - Curator and Producer): "Xicanidad - Past, Present, Futuro" , Houston Latino Film Festival (Houston, TX), March 12-16, 2025
DANIEL SETH KRAUS (Solo): "Monoliths Among Palmettos: The Failed Florida Barge Canal", Galveston Art Center (Galveston, TX), August 9 - November 2, 2025
Publications
LEXI PARRA: "In Florida, an immigrant pastor's detention sends a community reeling", National Public Radio, May 20, 2025
JON EVANS: "Transformación: A History and Future of ARLIS/NA in Mexico" (Co-author), Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, June 2025
MARK CHEN: "When Space and Time Merge", National Geographic (printed and online editions), March 2025 Issue
Books
JAKE ESHELMAN (Essay and Images): "Sacred Geography: Conversations with Place", Sophia Centre Press (Oct 2024)
DEBROAH FEINGOLD (Cover Image): "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman", Flatiron Books (Jan 2025)
ALEXA BECKER: "Another America" by Phil Toledano, L'Artiere (June 2024), Alexa Becker connected the American artist and the Italian publisher for one of the first books featuring AI-generated images exclusively
R. J. KERN: "The Best of the Best" Artist Book acquired by the Rosemary Furtak Artists’ Book Collection at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) in honor of Ralph Burnet
CHRISTINE CALLAHAN: "Of Covid: Collective Trauma", Kris Graves Projects in collaboration with Humble Arts Foundation (2024), Includes an image by Christine Callahan from her series Waying Days
VIOLETTE BULE: "De la Lleca al Cohue", Roga Ediciones (Nov 2023), Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, selected Violette Bule & Michel Otayek’s publication as July's Book of the Month
Other
LEXI PARRA: "Me Quiero Ir" (Short Doc Screening), Latin American Foto Festival, Bronx Documentary Center (Bronx, NY), July 12, 2025
JON EVANS: Jon Evans was in conversation Shane Lavalette at Inman Gallery (Austin, TX) in May 2025, in conjunction with Lavalette's solo exhibition "One Sun, One Shadow".
ALEXA BECKER: One of 3 leaders of NEWF masterclass & mentorship program for African photographers, June 2024 - July 2025
R. J. KERN (Acquisition): Two framed Artist Proofs purchased by US Bank Corporate Art Collection, enabled by Veronique Wantz Gallery and Daniel Zimmerman.
KRISTY PEET: Nat Art Residency (Tagle, Spain), May 26 - June 8, 2025