Adraint Bereal is in a tight spot.
He spent much of 2021 on the road, taking more than a dozen flights, plus Amtraks, buses, and rental cars. He lived out of his suitcase for months, lugging along eight cameras—point and-shoot, Polaroid, medium-format, “everything you could think of”—until the weight of all that gear wore him down. He shipped all but two home and kept going.
Bereal’s mission was heavy enough: to meet at least one hundred Black college students across the country, capture their lives in images and words——
