Bret Bumpus, left, his son, Evan Bumpus, and referee Robert Caico, right, confer after the first of three rounds during a boxing match on Oct. 1, 2022, hosted by The Saint Martin Boxing Club in Rochester, NY. The Saint Martin Boxing Club allows 8-16-year-olds to compete and train for free. Evan won his match.Mainers who don’t fit inside of the packed room listen from the side door of the Edward K. Arey Community Center in Bucksport, ME, as U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner holds a town hall in front of hundreds, on Nov. 15, 2025. Palestinian-American student activist Sarah Aljitawi stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library on Feb. 20, 2025, at the University of Rochester (UR) in Rochester, NY. Aljitawi, a junior, is the leader of the pro-Palestinian movement at UR. The goal of the pro-Palestinian student movement is to cut UR’s educational and financial ties to Israeli companies and universities. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the University of Rochester (UR) pro-Palestine protest encampment.
Palestinian-American student activist Saafa Tahboub stands in front of Monroe County Jail, on March 23, 2025, in Rochester, NY. Four of Tahboub’s peers were held at the jail after they were taken from campus and charged with felony misdemeanors for their alleged role in the distribution of “wanted” posters targeting UR faculty and staff. Tahboub, a sophomore, will become the leader of the University of Rochester pro-Palestinian movement after its current leader, Sarah Aljitawi, graduates.
People at the University of Rochester (UR) walk the patch of grass on Eastman Quadrangle where the pro-Palestinian protest encampment stood earlier that day, on May 14, 2024, in Rochester, NY. The encampment was present on campus for 22 days, and was forcibly removed by armed UR Dept. of Public Safety Peace Officers working together with facilities personnel.
Jonah Zell tosses an old plank out of the window of a house that he is renovating in Yarmouth, ME, on the morning of Nov. 8, 2025. Zell works on a renovation crew alongside his father, Will, and his older brother, Tristan.Batman of San Jose (BOSJ) stands in his living room after a day spent distributing food and soft goods to unhoused people on Nov. 12, 2023, in Rochester, NY. BOSJ is a student in Rochester. During his free time, he takes to the street, delivering aid on foot and attempting to get attention on the homelessness crisis by wearing his homemade Batman suit. He began this practice in his home city of San Jose, Calif. Elias Flores cuts fish at Feria Fluvial, a fish market in Valdivia, Chile, as a South American sea lion known as “Bigoti” begs for scraps, on July 2, 2024. Flores says that the sea lion robs him, so he “doesn’t trust him very much.”Dead freshwater drum lie strewn across Barcelona Beach, along Lake Erie, on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Westfield, NY. The fish were killed following an upswelling that forced cold water from the bottom of the lake to the surface, resulting in a temperature shift that the fish could not survive.
Charlie Tea, right, of the Chautauqua softball team, the “YAC PAC,” simultaneously has his legs swept out from under him and tags out Rylan Springer as Springer slides into third base during a game against the Chautauqua softball team “The Arthritics” July 7, 2025, at Sharpe Field, in Chautauqua, NY. From left, Marshall Howe, Flint Dickinson, and Teddy Anderson of the “YAC PAC” look on.Members of the Rochester Police Department investigate the scene after a police chase concludes on Genesee St., Rochester, NY, on Oct. 21, 2024. The vehicle, which officers pursued because they believed it was used in a recent shooting, stopped when it hit the Chabad House-Rohr Center for Jewish Life at the University of Rochester. Three suspects were taken into custody.A grower who asked not to be identified by name waters autoflower cannabis plants in his apartment on April 12, 2023, in Henrietta, NY.Aydin Myers, 5, tosses his football as Pastor Gordon “Gordy” Jones (from left), Nikkita Myers, Chris Myers, and Rhonda Sims stand in Sims’s late mother Helen Vice’s house in Maysville, KY, on Oct. 24, 2025. Sims contacted Jones to donate some of the contents of the home to Shepherd’s House, a church and charitable organization that Jones runs. The Myers family moved from Newport to Maysville that day and needed to furnish their new home. They contacted Jones, and he asked them to come directly to Vice’s house to pick up the donations.
A family of beagle-mixes hangs their heads out the window of their owner’s car as it pauses at a red light on East Third Street, in Maysville, KY, on Oct. 22, 2025.