ThePickle

Digital preservation of cultural heritage

The Pickle is an experimental category of The Spotlight. We are experimenting with digital cultural heritage.

A historic Pakistani street scene with a three-storey corner building and hand-painted shop signs.

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The corner

The same wooden-balconied corner building, photographed twice. Move between the frames and the difference is entirely in the ground floor.

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A transistor radio on a crocheted doily above a stack of Urdu paperbacks, beside a wall calendar open at April.

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The shelf

One shelf, two frames, and a calendar in each that reads April 1978 and April 2024.

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Warmly lit painted walls and arched windows inside a historic Pakistani monument.

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Engineering the Indus

Sukkur Barrage, 1924–1927. The barrage is the monument; the evidence that survives is mostly of everything around it.

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