Bourne created extensive albumen print documentary photographs of colonial India during the same 19th century period, focusing on architectural subjects and landscapes with the same sepia toned aesthetic and ethnographic observational quality as Beato's institutional documentation.

Burke worked as a documentary photographer in colonial South Asia producing albumen prints of architecture and landscapes that capture the same intersection of British imperial presence and local settings that defines Beato's approach to the Martinière College.

Tripe was an early documentary photographer who produced detailed albumen prints of Indian and Burmese architecture during the colonial period, sharing Beato's methodical attention to monumental structures and his role as an official recorder of the British imperial presence in Asia.