Dharamsala, April 15 - Dr. Clare Harris, Lecturer and Curator for Asia, Pitt Rivers Museum and School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, just finished her visit to Dharamsala to promote an interactive web archive that depicts Tibet visually, as captured through both colonial and post-colonial periods.

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.

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.

The Tibet Album can be viewed at:  http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/