Explore 6000 photographs of Tibet
The Tibet Album presents more than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history. These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans.
Featuring photographs taken by Charles Bell, Arthur Hopkinson, Evan Nepean, Hugh Richardson, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Harry Staunton and the previously unidentified photographs of Rabden Lepcha.
Our specially designed functions (maps, zoom, album…) enable you to browse this site in many different ways. Photographs appear in a variety of formats and can be linked to the visual narratives they were originally used for.
'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924
A monk, convicted of counterfeiting currency-notes (p.203) in a type of torture punishment device, called a cang, or cangue. Locked into the wood board around his neck 24 hours a day for years, the person punished will starve to death or dehydrate unless others feed him or give him water.
An obviously very poor Tibetan woman with untreated goitre
Man, woman, girl and baby patients at British Mission
Young Changpa nomad
Monks at Kargyu Monastery - really young boys, barefeet
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