This book advances understandings of modern relations between sovereigns and subjects across and between Asia and Europe in the twentieth century. It is the first monograph to examine in a contiguous field the relationship between Dutch and Indonesian monarchies and their subjects. The book critically progresses the ‘visual turn’ in historiographies of Southeast Asia, demonstrating how photography became embedded in Indonesian visual practices to enable new forms of social and political participation and subjectivity. In doing so, the book advances methods in the uses of photographic sources for reconstructing rituals of sovereignty, demonstrating the nuances of diplomacy between European and Asian monarchs, and revealing how amateur and mass photography shaped cultural citizens in transnational, imperial contexts.