Hector is a Honduran-American artist, educator, and researcher living and working in Massachusetts. In 2023, he was appointed the Francis C. Robertson Chair of Visual Studies and Photography at Phillips Academy Andover, and he is also a Lecturer in the Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2022, he completed the Smithsonian Institution’s inaugural U.S. Army Monuments Officer Training, a program designed to support the protection of art and culture during times of armed conflict and natural disasters.

Hector was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and became a U.S. citizen in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He served for more than a decade as a U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, with posts and deployments in Iraq, El Salvador, Poland, Germany, and Canada. He used the Post-9/11 GI Bill to earn a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and an MFA from the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York.

His work has received numerous grants and awards from the Eddie Adams Workshop, Red Bull Arts, Magnum Foundation, and the Massachusetts State Cultural Council. His photographs have been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including at Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Osnova Gallery Moscow, Aperture Foundation in New York City, the Delaware Contemporary, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Photoville NYC, and FotoFest Houston. His photographs and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, the Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, CNN,  L’Oeil de la Photographie, and Dear Dave Magazine.