Matt Burkhartt

Jeff at Martine cocktail bar in Rochester, NY

14 of the 17 workers on board were arrested. It is believed that their efforts to unionize played a role in their detention.

Fearing retaliation from his employer in Wolcott, the worker I photographed asked to be identified as Antonio and my portraits of him had to obscure his identity.

Some images I made for a nonprofit magazine based in Chicago, In These Times in the spring for a story about the very tenuous nature of farm work at apple orchards in Upstate NY.
On May 2, a bus full of farmworkers heading to a farm called Lynn-Ette & Sons was stopped by federal agents in Albion.

The beginning of a new project highlighting some of the members of Stride run club in Rochester, NY

Some images I shot earlier this month for the Washington Post, aboard the Colonial Belle, which launches on the Erie Canal in Fairport, my hometown. The images accompany a story about the canal's bicentennial which is being celebrated this year.

Some moments from SUNY Geneseo’s 2025 commencement on Saturday

Happy Mother’s Day

Pink by the green

Out of focus flowers

Run club hangs

A selection of images from my coverage of Dyngus Day in Buffalo for the Washington Post

Chloe Rayburn, Kurt Schirrmacher, and Emily Szezublewski, play Spikeball on the college green at SUNY Geneseo, Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Mary Saporito and Jacob Rosario share a hammock together on the edge of the college green at SUNY Geneseo on a day that reached the high 60s

Golden light + spring flowers

Some images of my mom and my aunt visiting with my aunt’s horses on Easter

Fall Brook falls, Geneseo, NY

Some moments from my run club over the past couple weeks

Neverending winter

Little moon, big sky

Local author, Rob Kircher, near his home on Lake Ontario

Some images of my buddy Nick in his studio, Silver and Salt, where he makes tin type portraits