OUR TEAM

Penelope Dixon, Co-Founder and President

Penelope Dixon has more than 35 years of experience in fine art photography, including positions at the auction houses of Phillips Son & Neale and Argus, Ltd., both in Manhattan. She has lectured, served on the boards of a number of arts and appraisal organizations, and contributed to many books and articles relating to fine art photography. Penelope reviews every appraisal produced by her firm, Penelope Dixon & Associates, and provides valuable oversight to each valuation. She is the author of Photographers of the Farm Security Administration: An Annotated Bibliography.

Karen Gaines, Co-Founder and Executive Director

Karen Gaines is a longtime photo editor who served in that capacity at several of Time Inc. magazines, including People and Time, where she worked closely with the preeminent photojournalists of the mid- to late-twentieth century. She also ran photographic coverage for the official record of President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration and worked with the Smithsonian Institution on its exhibition of those pictures. A graduate of Tufts with a BFA in Photography, she is currently finishing her postgraduate work in information science to better serve PCPP’s mission. She is also certified in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practices (USPAP).

Terry Shtob, Ph.D., Director of Development

Terry Shtob has been a leader in arts institutions for many years. In the Bay Area she was deputy director of the Mexican Museum and a development director of SFMOMA. She led arts programs at UC Berkeley and Stanford and worked as director of professional arts programs at NYU for more than ten years. She ran the highly successful appraisal studies program there and pioneered programs in collections management, art business, and arts communications.

Stephanie Neel, Assistant Director

Stephanie Neel has been working as a photo archivist since she graduated from Pratt Institute's School of Information in May 2015. Since graduating she has interned at the Avedon Foundation; worked as a processing archivist at the Watermill Center; and done freelance research and archival work for galleries, photojournali