The archive is organized into six collections spanning Zoksang's work from 1985 to the present. Each is a thread — the homeland, the teacher who has led its people in exile, the communities rebuilt elsewhere, and the landscapes that hold them all.

Tibet, 1990s

1993 — present

The homeland, after thirty-three years away. Multiple return visits beginning 1993. Sera, Drepung, Ganden. Amdo, Kham. Monasteries, nomads, and a country in the middle of something.

8 photographs

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

1985 — present

Photographs of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama made over three decades of accompaniment on His teachings and travels across the United States, and on visits in India and Nepal.

3 photographs

The Diaspora in India

1985 — present

Dharamshala, Bylakuppe, Mundgod, Kollegal. The settlements the Government of India gave us. Made across annual or semi-annual return visits over four decades.

1 photograph

The Diaspora in America

1987 — present

Tibetans in Queens and New Jersey, in the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks. The Losars and the Saka Dawas, the weddings and funerals, the visits from His Holiness, the quiet ordinary days.

1 photograph

Landscapes

1993 — present

The Tibetan plateau, the Himalayas, the places where my people came from and the places they passed through. Simpler than the others — the ones I made for myself.

1 photograph

Portraits

1990 — present

Some formal, some from the flow of life. Respected elders and teachers; friends and neighbors; strangers who allowed a picture. A selection made across decades.

1 photograph