The frames hold mostly photographs of the Theravada Buddhist world of Laos and Luang Prabang, taken by monks or Buddhist laypeople since the 1850s. A small number of texts, certificates, or documents are also present. The subject matter includes images of Buddha statues, Buddhist ceremonies, people’s festivals, landscape/architecture, monastery/architecture, meetings/conferences, group portraits of laypeople with and without monks, group and individual portraits of monks, meditation images, pictures relating to the royal court, a number of portraits of Pha Khamchan Virachitta as well as travel material (pilgrimages and visits of the Lao diaspora after the Pathet Lao revolution).The photographs were collected while the contributor lived as a Buddhist monk and abbot at Vat Saen Sukharam, Luang Prabang. Annotations and inscriptions in Lao, Pali (Tham script), French, Khmer, Thai.
117 prints. The originals were found in frames in the Sim, in Sala 80, and in the Kuti (living quarters) of Pha Khamchan Virachitta at Vat Saen Sukharam.
Original material consists of: silver gelatine DOP prints (some hand coloured), chromogenic prints, monochrome halftone prints, colour halftone prints, laser prints/photocopies, inkjet prints, original paintings, charcoal drawings.
