Mission
The Center for Creative Photography actively collects, preserves, interprets, manages and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Through its archives, collections, education programs, exhibitions, and publications, the Center promotes research into and appreciation of the photographic medium while safeguarding original objects for posterity.
Vision
The Center for Creative Photography is a unique site for exploration into and debate about photography and its role in modern society. We advocate freedom of expression and responsible stewardship of our photographic heritage, encourage open-minded inquiry and collaboration, and lead by example in the creation of new knowledge about lens-based culture.
Values
The Center for Creative Photography embraces the ideal that both knowledge and art are intrinsically valuable to society and people's lives, and that photography as a medium offers special insights into the nature of reality, the human condition, and our place in history. In the service of this ideal, we are dedicated to intellectual freedom, professional integrity, respect for a diversity of viewpoints, and learning as a life-long project.