Vintage Vignettes is a collection of original glass negatives of South India taken between 1880 and 1930. Chennai or Madras photographs make up the majority of the collection.

Vintage Vignettes perhaps has the only authentic photo documentation of what the city of Madras looked like over a hundred years ago.
Since then Vintage has undertaken the documentation of the city of Chennai twice, once in 1990 and another a more exhaustive one in 2005.
Vintage Vignettes has in it`s collection over 12,000 images of the new city of Chennai covering not only it`s heritage buildings, roads and other important landmarks but also the festivals, culture and other aspects of the city.