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Adjunct Associate Professor of Photography Matthew Leifheit was featured in The New York Times for his sound installation No Time at All, which played this summer at the New York City AIDS Memorial. The piece is composed of VHS tapes of gay men’s choruses made at the height of the AIDS crisis. “One of the most powerful ways to encounter an artwork is if you’re not expecting to have the experience of art,” said Leifheit of the installation in the West Village.

Photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode, MFA Fine Arts ’83, was featured in the “Overlooked” section of The New York Times. “Rotimi Fani-Kayode is, for me, part of a constituency of historically important figures who take the camera as a lens of liberation that they offer on the world,” Mark Sealy said. “They’re not necessarily about photography; they’re about that lens. They’re about a way of seeing.”

Ron Shiffman, visiting professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), and Eddie Bautista, MS City and Regional Planning ’02, both wrote op-eds examining the proposed Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment plan. “Jobs, neighborhood stability, climate adaptation and economic resilience—these are the stakes in the redevelopment of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, a 122-acre, publicly-owned stretch of working waterfront in Red Hook,” Shiffman wrote for Crain’s New York Business. “But you would not suspect the project’s far-ranging implications from the city’s heedless rush to push through an ill-considered plan for the site, in disregard of community voices and of locally mandated planning processes.” For the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Bautista wrote with NYC Councilmember Alexa Avilés that “we have the historic opportunity to create a public good that makes our community safer and healthier but it’s being passed up.” 

Freddy Thompson, MSLIS ’25, interviewed Romel Espinal, one of Pratt Libraries’ Critical & Inclusive Pedagogy Librarians for Iron & Glass. The interview covers “[Espinal’s] role at the library, the role of librarianship in the wider world, and how he can help you get the most out of the library and your time at Pratt.”