Fr. Jean-Michel de Tarragon, O.P., is a French Dominican priest from the École Biblique who has been in the Holy Land for forty-five years. He received his PhD in Paris IV Sorbonne (1978) in ancient history and cuneiform Canaanite language. He is in charge of the École Biblique’s photo archive, which he began to scan in 2001; with the addition of other photo archives, the collection now includes over thirty thousand photos of Palestine.