A’niyah Thompson gets a haircut with a razorblade from Jacob Cotto before catching a quick nap before his next shift at Amazon — right after coming off his last one. Both men live at the Rosette Neighborhood Village, a collective of tents and tiny homes in the back of the Amistad Catholic Worker House in New Haven, Conn.
A woman blocks her ears in front of a group of students protesting against the war in Gaza as parents and students leave Yale’s commencement ceremony on May 20, 2024. Hundreds of students walked out of the ceremony to protest the school’s investment in companies associated with the Israeli military.
Suki Godek sits on her bed in a tiny home in the Rosette Neighborhood Village on January 12, 2024. She and other residents there have been waiting for weeks as winter sets in for New Haven officials to make final approvals for the electricity to be turned on for the homes that were built earlier in the fall. “We’ve been this process for months now,” she said. Godek has helped the process of building the backyard community behind the Amistad Catholic Worker House over the past year after being evicted by the city from a tent city earlier in the year.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim greets his supporters in downtown Bridgeport, declaring victory against his challenger John Gomes early in the night before the official vote counts were announced during a re-do of the city’s Democratic primary. Months before, a judge threw out the result of the last election because of allegations of absentee ballot stuffing during September's primary.
18-year-old Owen Burlingame sits in front of his family’s trailer, with his two bulls Possum (right) and Brindle (left) at the 163 Annual Woodstock Fair on Saturday August 31, 2024. He came down from Shelton, Massachusetts with his cousins to compete in the oxen pull, where teams of cattle will face off, pulling up to six tons of weight.
Gustavo Sepulveda (in red) receives medical care from Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center’s street medicine team, who provide healthcare for unhoused people in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven. The team has seen a surge in health care needs from people in the unhoused community.
Al Gore pays respects to Joe Lieberman’s wife Hadassah and members his former running mate's family after speaking at Lieberman's funeral service at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Conn.
Elementary school student Tabitha Powell runs through a group of men giving high fives on the first day of school in August 2023. The local organization Calling All Brothers holds back to school greetings every year for students in Hartford. “Support the kids, support the youth, support the future,” said Fred Phillips, one of the attendees.
Jane Fawcett, 86, former Vice Chairman of the Mohegan tribe, stands for a portrait after a repatriation ceremony where handwritten papers of 18th century Mohegan scholar Samson Occom were returned to the Mohegan Tribe. Fawcett grew up on the home site of Occom. “He was the person I looked to — he inspired me to go to college. He was always there for me.” she said.
A pilot study run by the SEICHE Center at Yale provides direct cash assistance to recently incarcerated people. For Verneisha Snow (above) the intervention is $500 every month, for six months, to each participant — no strings attached. "Luckily, I didn't get to do too much time. But I am a woman with a record. A lot of us have records, but we want to do better in life," Snow said.
Karen Moore sits for a portrait in East Hampton, Conn. Moore is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and a change in several insurer’s billing codes will make a kind of breast reconstruction surgery inaccessible to her and hundreds of thousands of other people who have breast cancer.
Lois Patrick stands in front of the home where she was raised in Bridgeport, Conn. The house was sold at a foreclosure auction, and the remaining equity was reduced by a host of court costs, including excessive fees charged by a state marshal. A group of Connecticut state marshals are facing scrutiny for allegedly overcharging for their work to deliver legal paperwork.
Denise Paley sits for a portrait in her home in Guilford, Conn. on the glider from her son’s nursery. Her 22-year-old son has been incarcerated since 2020, and she's advocated for prisons to make phone calls free so she and other family members can provide critical support and contact to loved ones who are incarcerated.
State Trooper Brian North (center) leaves Milford Superior Court after pleading not guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of 19-year-old Mubarak Soulemane. In 2020, North shot Soulemane after a high-speed chase.
A worker at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana places a pizza into a coal oven during a weekday lunchtime rush. The restaurant was founded in 1925 by Italian immigrant Frank Pepe in New Haven, and has since opened locations across the Northeast.
A worker moves a trolley of hot dogs along a rail system on the ceiling from the smoker where they were cooked into the cooling room at the Hummel Bros. hot dog factory in New Haven, Conn.
Thousands of demonstrators block I-95 in New Haven, Connecticut to protest police brutality in Connecticut and across the country following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Hundreds of beds set up in the Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University to serve as overflow space for Yale New-Haven Hospital in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.