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We are happy to inform you that the joint photo library of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) and the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) is now online. You may access it through the website of the IFP and that of the EFEO.The site provides access to the 134 600 photographs of the joint collection constituted between 1956 and 1999 by members of both institutions. The photographs of temples, statues and inscriptions that it contains are conserved in the premises of the IFP. This collection constitutes one of the last testimonies to a past whose rapid disappearance is of concern to specialists and aficionados, both Indian and Western. The two institutions have put it online, in order to make it accessible to a wide public.We hope that it will be extensively consulted and that it will contribute in further highlighting the rich architectural and iconographic heritage of South India.