latte in the powdery snow. Stacks of instant noodles in the Chinese supermarket. A half-eaten pack of avocado maki beside a pot of pickled ginger.
These are photos which make up one of 20-year-old Nayna’s photo dump posts on Instagram. A ‘photo dump’ is an Instagram carousel post which features multiple, unrelated pictures.
Over the past year, you’ve probably noticed more and more of them on your feed. You might even have posted a few yourself. Low-effort and pell-mell (hence the name ‘dump’), Olivia Yallop, creative director at youth-focused creative studio The Digital Fairy, describes photo dumps as “the digital equivalent of doodles on napkins or marginalia on medieval manuscripts”.
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