Houston Center for Photography's 43rd Center Annual

The Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The guest juror this year is Asha Iman Veal.

The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in the world, whether emerging, mid-career, or established, and as such, aims to provide viewers with critical insight into our current moment—both within the field of photography and within society at large. Of those selected, two artists are chosen to receive the HCP Juried Membership Honoraria of $500 each.

HCP is thrilled to announce a NEW print purchase award for our Center Annual exhibitions: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Purchase Award, gift of the Houston Center for Photography with the support of Joan Morgenstern and Patricia Eifel. The purchase award, a cash prize of up to $5,000, will be awarded each year to an artist or artists picked by MFAH Curator of Photography, Lisa Volpe, from among those exhibited in HCP’s Center Annual. The chosen work will become part of the permanent collection at MFAH if approved by the museum’s review committee. This award is offered in addition to the two $500 HCP Juried Membership Honoraria that are awarded every Center Annual Exhibition. 

Many thanks to our generous supporters Joan Morgenstern and Patricia Eifel.

Asha Iman Veal is this year's juror and a curator for globally collaborative exhibitions of contemporary art, focused on conceptual photography and moving-image, cross-diasporic themes, and intercultural dialogues through methodologies of art education. Veal is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works between Paris, France and Chicago, Illinois.