The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month: Feb. 2015

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Mikko Takkunen @photojournalism  March 2, 2015

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



The New York Times: Child, Bride, Mother
Saida, 14, with her month-old son.





The New York Times Magazine: ‘The Media Doesn’t Care What Happens Here’
The Complexo do Alemão favelas in Rio de Janeiro.





TIME LightBox: Inside the Frozen Trenches of Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers conduct operations along the road in Artemivsk, Ukraine, Feb.15, 2015.





The Globe and Mail: Pro-Russian fighters in the ruins of Donetsk airport
Pro-Russian separatist fighter seen at his position in Donetsk airport, Ukraine, Feb. 10, 2015.





From the March issue of National Geographic magazine: Athens
Police frisk young men on Aeschylus Street, near Omonia Square in Athens. Rates of drug use, prostitution, and HIV infection have risen in the area since the crisis began.





From the March issue of National Geographic magazine: Berlin
The Sony Center in Berlin stands in the high-sheen Potsdamer Platz, where the Wall had split the city.





From the March issue of National Geographic magazine: Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge
With their homes in Ayn al Arab, Syria, under attack, ethnic Kurds push toward a barbed wire fence at the Turkish border.





Wired Rawfile: The Mountains Of Majeed
Scene from Bagram Airfield U.S. military base in Afghanistan.





The New Yorker Photo Booth: What Remains
Grandparents John and Prova.





The Washington Post In Sight: Leading a Double Life in Pakistan
Waseem Akram, 27, applies makeup on his face as he prepares himself for a party at a friend's place in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Jan. 10, 2015.