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# Mikko Takkunen

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## Mikko Takkunen


## Mikko Takkunen


* ![Addario Displaced](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39ecba37e0527c1d/69887323196cf49df503939d/addario-displaced.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Dec 2015)](https://time.com/4129215/photojournalism-links-november/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in November, as curated by Mi...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Solar power](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf90af1661865b7d5/69886f15a988ca14bd6b514f/solar-power.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 2, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (2 Nov 2015)](https://time.com/4095835/photojournalism-links-october/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in October, as curated by Mik...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![migrants refugees Mediterranean](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26a744ad861d1b1/6988664af887dce8e9e92a75/migrants-crossing-mediterranean.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Oct 2015)](https://time.com/4052241/photojournalism-links-september/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in September, as curated by M...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Gaza war one year anniversary](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt082b5d5650a83766/698861a135ba6f7c72c0ef1c/gaza-ruins-tomas-munita.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Sep 2015)](https://time.com/4016306/photojournalism-links-august/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in August, as curated by Mikk...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Balkan migrants refugees Europe](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67c6ba7e85c96602/69885f695f570fc884b1cf05/balkan-migrants-refugees-europe-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 19, 2015  
### [Discover Migrants' Journey to Europe Through Macedonia](https://time.com/3999133/balkan-migrants-refugees-europe/)  
The Greek-Macedonian border offers safer passage for thousands of migrants  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![Melilla, Spain, April 24th 2014. Some 20 subsaharan migrants manage to escape from the Police and star running through the fields next to the border. Despite the fact that these migrants had the right to stay in Spain since they touch Spanish soil, the G](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf034d853285d32f/698854cce53abaa58b4de33f/melilla-migrants-51.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 11, 2015  
### [Discover Melilla, the Southern Frontier in Europe's Migrant Crisis](https://time.com/3923104/melilla-migrant-crisis/)  
Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, has become a modern-day fortress  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Fellows of Police officer Carbín Aguilar, shoot to death by member of a gang,  introduce the coffin with his remains in a funerary car in front of relatives and friends which attend to the funeral. Santa Ana, El Salvador, June 2015.  \(Manu Brabo / MeMo\) ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2936e1ca8fb5104d/69885d7f5f570f58f7b1cb73/el-salvador-manu-brabo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 3, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (3 Aug 2015)](https://time.com/3980742/photojournalism-links-july/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in July, as curated by Mikko ...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Rohingya](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54ee909c42389407/69885931cd6848c92f0a09d3/rohingya-burma-myanmar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Jul 2015)](https://time.com/3941823/photojournalism-links-june/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in June, as curated by Mikko ...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Living Goddesses of Nepal](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76bee569ee39708b/6988524f8e06018ec7460bc5/kumari_mm8303_ngm_0615_001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Jun 2015)](https://time.com/3902027/photojournalism-links-may/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in May, as curated by Mikko T...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A housing development on the edge of undeveloped desert in Cathedral City, Calif.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4b0f9e2de2eb8c7/6987ee1f428a9e3497ccb398/california-drought.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 4, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (4 May 2015)](https://time.com/3844596/photojournalism-links-april/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in April, as curated by Mikko...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![A family in El Chuparosa, Guerrero. When rain poured through their roof, the father said, ÒThe house is crying.Ó](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55156aff6b9753e7/698785fdcd6848929f09a671/matt-black-guerrero-mexico.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 1, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (1 Apr 2015)](https://time.com/3762744/photojournalism-links-march/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in March, as curated by Mikko...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Child Marriage in Guatemala](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte0d236271299237f/6987819acd68483fa4099f0f/stephanie_sinclair_guatemala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 2, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month (2 Mar 2015)](https://time.com/3696930/photojournalism-links-february/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in February, as curated by Mi...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Ebola Virus for National Geographic Magazine](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt022de2b0f69c0998/69877cfc3c1639ee7a45183a/ebola-sierra-leone-pete-muller.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 2, 2015  
### [The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month](https://time.com/3687500/photojournalism-links-january/)  
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in January, as curated by Mik...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Sand dug from the seafloor of Lagos Lagoon is being used to reclaim land and to make the concrete blocks that many of the cities houses are made from.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a8b9a9f81b9b66a/698779af5f570f79eab14ac0/nigeria-lagos-sanddiggers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 14, 2015  
### [Photojournalism Daily: Jan. 14, 2015](https://time.com/3666161/photojournalism-daily-21/)  
A compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Haiti: 5 years and 54 seconds later](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc34f352eb57aebf5/6987798d35ba6fd03ec0674c/haiti-marco-gualazzini.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 13, 2015  
### [Photojournalism Daily: Jan. 13, 2015](https://time.com/3664845/photojournalism-daily-20/)  
A compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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