The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month: March 2015

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A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in March, as curated by Mikko Takkunen



The New Yorker Photo Booth: Guerrero and the Disappeared
A family in El Chuparosa, Guerrero. When rain poured through their roof, the father said, “The house is crying.”





WIRED: The Deadly Global War for Sand
Indian workers crush stone into sand at an illegal mine near Raipur Village in India on March 18, 2015.





From the April issue of National Geographic magazine: India’s Insurgency
At an ad hoc restaurant, men prepare breakfast for workers clocking in for the morning shift at the coal-based Jindal Tamnar thermal power plant, in the Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh.





The New York Times: The Ride of Their Lives
A rodeo event in which members of the Wright family competed in at Ogden Pioneer Days in Ogden, Utah, July 22, 2014.





TIME LightBox: Cuba
The National Cuban Capitol Building in Havana is seen during restoration work. December 2014.





TIME LightBox: Gold Rivers
A tourist boat visits the former village of Savaçan, flooded by the reservoir lake of the Birecik Dam on the Euphrates River. Turkey.





The New York Times: Afghan Policewomen Struggle Against Culture
Police training in Kabul.





The New York Times: Stress and Hope in Tehran
Taraneh, architect, 29: "I love to travel, not just for fun, but to become familiar with other countries and have a kind of cultural interaction. But unfortunately as the sanctions became more and more intense, our money lost its value to U.S dollar gradually. So now I can’t afford to travel anymore. The irony is that I can find everything that I need here in my country, but the prices have skyrocketed so much that I cannot have them. "





From the April issue of National Geographic magazine: Lincoln
Children in Washington, D.C., view a plaster cast of a life mask of Lincoln’s face, made nine weeks before his death in April 1865.





MSNBC: A look at one young Syrian refugee's journey through Europe
A Syrian family outside one of the containers in a former Bulgarian military base that was turned into a refugee camp in Harmanli, Bulgaria, 2014.