// The Plate Library · Series PL
26 plates, and what is missing
Every plate in this library is AI-generated. None is a photograph of a real person, build, business or event. The provenance line travels with the image.
Free to reuse for GKHack26 and Makairo2MandelaBay work. Keep the provenance line. Cite a plate by its accession — PL-01 to PL-26 — in the same register as FL, M and DOC.
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19 plates in Open
PL-01
Reading a document by a window
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PL-02
A panel reviewing papers
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PL-03
One builder, one machine, after dark
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PL-04
A phone and a wireframe notebook
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PL-05
Showing the work to people who must judge it
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PL-09
Explaining a screen to someone older
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PL-10
Two people recording a build
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PL-11
Arriving, with bags
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PL-12
A workshop bench at dusk
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PL-14
A ledger and a phone of bundle prices
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PL-15
Two at one laptop in the dark
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PL-17
Four under a blackboard
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PL-18
A lit duka under stars
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PL-19
A price board, a phone and a ledger
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PL-20
Four kinds of work at once
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PL-21
A lit window at blue hour
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PL-22
Infrastructure at the edge, drawn
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PL-23
A hillside town with a bookshop
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PL-25
A lakeside computer room
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// Publish the gaps
What is missing
- No plate was made in South Africa. The Mandela Bay half of the corridor has no imagery.
- Mobility has one plate.
- No plate shows a minerals record being made — only extraction and sorting.
These are recorded rather than filled. On the Wall, the four node cards with no plate say so on the card — none of them borrows an image from somewhere else to cover the gap.