After more than a year of meetings and informal discussions with Al Weber and a few other photographers who shared his concern for what might happen to the archives of an aging population of career photographers, the Foundation for Photographic Preservation (FfPP) was organized as a California non-profit corporation in August 2006. We subsequently qualified for tax-deductible status under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3). The specific purpose of the corporation is to facilitate the preservation of the works of photographers, or of photographic collections, that have artistic, historical or social merit.