The Sonam Zoksang Archive

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Press & Exhibitions

The institutional record.

Selected press, exhibitions, and publications · 1990s — present

His Holiness the Dalai Lama on stage with six Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
His Holiness with Six Nobel Peace Laureates. · Nobel Women's Summit, Vancouver. · 2008

Press & Interviews

  • 2023 The Edition · Essay by Sonam Zoksang on His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Tibetan community press feature.
  • 2015 PBS / WMHT · Broadcast segment on Sonam Zoksang's photography and practice, produced at WMHT.
  • 2011 Lake Placid News · Feature profile on the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Adirondack visit.
  • 2009 Elizabeth Avedon Journal · Feature profile on Sonam Zoksang's photographic work and Tibetan archive.

Exhibitions

  • 2011 Visions of Tibet · University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. With photographer Stephen Ironside, on the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to the University of Arkansas.
  • 2007 Muhammad Ali Center · Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, Kentucky. Tibet photographs featured in exhibition programming around the Center's Six Core Principles.
  • 2001 Free Spirit Festival · McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India. Eleven selected photographs from the Tibet archive.
  • 1990s Tibet exhibition, Congressional Building · United States Congressional Building, Washington, D.C.. Tibet exhibition closed after less than a week under political pressure from the Chinese embassy.

Published Photography

  • Ongoing Photo credits for the Central Tibetan Administration · Tibet.net · Central Tibetan Administration. Ongoing use of Sonam Zoksang photography for Dalai Lama coverage and Central Tibetan Administration releases, beginning at least 2012.
  • Ongoing Annual calendars and campaign materials · International Campaign for Tibet. Photographs featured across multiple annual ICT calendars and campaign materials.
  • Ongoing Editorial and archival use · Office of Tibet, New York. Editorial and archival use of photographs on the occasion of His Holiness's visits to the United States, by arrangement with the Office of Tibet.
  • Various Tibetan community press and academic volumes · Various. Published in Tibetan community newspapers and diaspora publications, in books and magazine profiles of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and in academic volumes on Tibetan religious and cultural life.

Public Talks & Slide Presentations

  • 2011 Artist's talk · University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. Artist's talk accompanying the Visions of Tibet exhibition during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit.

Service

  • Ongoing Board of Directors · U.S. Tibet Committee.
  • Former President · Tibetan Association of New York & New Jersey.
  • 1987 — Proprietor · Vision of Tibet · Greenwich Village (1987 – 2009), then the Hudson Valley, and currently Lake Placid & New Paltz, New York.