STARS is a multidisciplinary research collective which aims to investigate the history of Tamil studio photography between the 1880s and the 1980s as well as to protect and promote the rich and vulnerable productions photographic productions.
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At the heart of the S.T.A.R.S. collective is the creation of the first archive of Tamil commercial studio photography.