The Archeology of Photography Foundation aims to collect and exhibit the legacy of the Polish photography. One of the Foundation's main activities is working with the archival repository, and initiating artistic and scholarly events based on the archival resources.

Another important part of the Foundation's activities is digitalizing and disseminating on-line the Polish photographers' heritage. The Archeology of Photography Foundation's members work on improving the archival practices and digitalization standards. Furthermore, they organize training for other collectors and institutions, and engage in networking activities with Polish and international cultural organisations, in order to share knowledge on the modes of preserving and digitalizing different types of visual materials. 

Since its beginning, the Archeology of Photography Foundation has been working with photographs and documents of the Polish visual artists, i.a. Zofia Chomętowska, Maria Chrząszczowa, Janusz Bąkowski, Wojciech Zamecznik, and Tadeusz Sumiński. After the digitalization of their private archives, the Foundation exhibits their works - often for the first time in a decade or two - both in the galleries and on-line. The Foundation tends not to simplify the art work by cathegorising it as a "documentary" or an "artistic" photography, but on the opposite: it allows the audience to interpret the art itself. Moreover, the Foundation activities present the blurred division between the "official" and the "unofficial" art in the socialist times - different artists in different time periods had the opportunity to either exhibit their works or to hide them in the private archives.