As this academic year began, we were cresting, as New York Magazine put it, “the Summer of the Photo Dump.” On Instagram, image carousels filled with camera-roll miscellany without pretense or filter—nonchalant on one hand, or, taken another way, singular, lyrical glimpses of the ephemeral beauty of everyday experience. For this issue of Prattfolio, situated in New York City, in Brooklyn, on campus, we look at moments captured by Pratt students as they moved once again through this place of serendipity, surprise, and creative connection. 

  • Pot resembling a head holding green leafy plant on a table with artist supplies
  • Students walk from shaded courtyard into sunlit campus under ornate metal gateway
  • Oval painting with abstracted black-and-white forms within golden frame
Two people at an IKEA café table look out over a parking lot of school buses with the Manhattan skyline in the distance
Building with fire escape, green trees, and blue sky viewed at an angle from below
  • Brooklyn Bridge under azure sky
  • Person regards a painting of hot Cheetos on subway platform
  • Oversize dice, transparent globe, and other miscellaneous items on glass shelves
Bike propped standing on its back wheel against a wall, with a Blick bag hanging on its handlebars
  • Work table with clamped wood block in the process of being carved, with scattered shavings
  • Gray display table with piles of oat-Os cereal on the floor next to it, ladder, and broom
  • NYC skyline at night with tennis match playing on a screen
Students gather on a city sidewalk with 99 cent fresh pizza sign illuminated in red on a storefront behind them
Shopping cart holding green plants and pink sign reading Please Do Not Remove Plants
  • Walkway on Pratt's Brooklyn campus dappled in light beneath trees
  • Student holds in front of their face a black-and-white photo of a smiling older person
  • City streetlight and one way sign with skyline in the distance
Dancers in black leotards leap with arms stretched up in an outdoor performance
Pair of students sit on bench looking out over city from floor-to-ceiling windows
  • Photo prints hanging on a white wall
  • Students take a selfie in a convex mirror
  • A wooden chair holds a plant with thin green leaves