 As part of his contract with the Batavian Society, van Kinsbergen had to take photographs of Borobudur, which had just been cleaned and restored.However, when he went to photograph the Panataran Hindu temple complex in East Java in 1867, he ran out of chemicals.In his enthusiasm for photographing the many reliefs of the temple complex, he used up so many glass slides that he could not go to Borobudur as he had intended to.