About Us

PCPP’s Mission

PCPP was founded to preserve the photographic record of our history and culture by addressing threats to some of the best such work in the last 100 years. The threat arises from a gap between chronically backlogged, overworked institutions and massive, unorganized collections whose creators or heirs find the issues of archiving, digital storage, physical preservation, and rights management overwhelming. Very few important collections avoid this fate. 

PCPP serves as an advisor and consultant for artists seeking to preserve their work, but also proactively identifies such imperiled cultural, historical, and educational assets in order  to see that they are properly placed and preserved. We help organize the collections—including letters, notebooks, and other ephemera—and facilitate their accession by the best possible institutional steward. While PCPP acts as a good-faith advisor to all parties, our allegiance is to the work, and our sole mission is to ensure that it is made available to scholars, the public, and future generations.

We also serve the work we represent by drawing together interested professionals, including curators, gallerists, appraisers, archivists, collectors, and experts in fine art photography and photojournalism. 

To date, PCPP has helped to place Charlotte Temple’s work at Duke University, Robert Nickelsberg’s at American University, and John Dominis’s at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas. We have also advised the Ben Martin Estate, the Josephine Hennerick Project, and such prominent living photographers as John Loengard,  Sarah Hoskins, and others. After more than two years working with Shawn Walker and the Kamoinge Workshop, the Harlem-based collective of African-American photographers, PCPP arranged for the Shawn Walker Collection to be acquired by the Library of Congress in 2020.

our staff

Amina Lakhaney

Executive Director
Amina Lakhaney was the studio manager and archivist for renowned Magnum photographer, Bruce Davidson, for nearly a decade. During this time she catalogued and organized his expansive 20,000+ print archive as well as worked on numerous acquisitions for private collections and museums. Lakhaney has edited many of Davidson’s monographs including the catalog for his retrospective exhibition with MAPFRE. She has also worked in the retail market with notable New York galleries, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bruce Silverstein Gallery. Amina continues to work with photographers, advising on archive and collections management. She received her BFA in photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Indigo Cowherd

Associate Director
Indigo has worked in the photography world as a Digital Asset Manager and Photography Coordinator within the entertainment and media world. She managed on-set photography collections for streaming services, working with photographers to manage their photo assets. She has also worked as an archivist for John Baldessari’s estate within the AV department, specializing in photographic film and digital video assets. She currently assists PCPP as a coordinator, assisting with new project meeting setup and PCPP website administration.