A student sits in front of a mural with the symbol for Ayotzinapa — the turtle. Students said that Ayotzinapa means "the land of turtles" in Nahuatl.
A teacher reviews the work of students. This classroom now serves as a student dormitory.
A teaching student makes miniature sandals in leather-working class.
Young normal students in their final year of study work on one of their last school projects. Due to lack of funding, Ayotzinapa normal students have learned to be very creative at constructing teaching tools out of recycled and re-used materials.
The Raul Isidro Burgos Normal School dining hall, decorated with socialist-themed murals.
A student bathes by pouring bowls of water on himself. Because of a lack of functioning showers, many of these students bathe using the same water basin they use to wash their clothing.
The covered court where we played basketball last year now serves as a donation center to receive supplies and food for the students and search parties, and as a meeting point for family members of the 43 disappeared students. One corner of the court now functions as a mess hall, preparing and serving food to visitors, volunteers, even media.In the center of the court sits an altar surrounded by flowers, adorned with a wood figure of Jesus on the cross.Now, the students' classrooms are used as dorms to house the normalistas who have traveled here from other normal schools across Mexico to support the search effort, and show solidarity at the demonstrations being organized throughout the state of Guerrero, across the country, and around the world.In the main dining room, the students hold assemblies, which always end end with them singing "Venceremos!" — Spanish for "We will overcome!"At their demonstrations against local authorities, the students have taken to shouting, "We are the people, just like you! We are the people!"'They took them alive, we want them back alive!'
A first-year normalista sleeps on the floor of his room. The other ten students who shared this room have been missing since the attack.
A young man plays the guitar under a sign that says, "Aguirre! Murderer!"
These classrooms now serve as makeshift dormitories for family members of the missing, and students from other normal schools who have come to offer their help in the search effort.
Human remains found by the group of Argentine forensics experts who were brought in to help authorities identify bodies in the mass graves in the hillsides surrounding Iguala. This jaw bone and set of lower teeth was discovered in a clandestine grave in Loma del Zapatera, near the site where the first five mass graves were discovered in Iguala on October 5.
Crates with Molotov cocktails, which are composed of rags, fuel, and Coca Cola bottles.
Normalistas and teachers from the Guerrero teacher's union march toward the municipal headquarters in Iguala. Shortly afterward, demonstrators set fire to the government building and ransacked it.
A young protester throws a fan at the offices of the municipal government in Iguala, just minutes before the building is engulfed in flames.
The office of Mayor Jose Luis Abarca after normal students and teachers entered it.
An Iguala resident sits in the middle of the street watching the municipal headquarters burn. Demonstrators and other masked individuals later looted the building after protesters left it in ruin.
Residents took advantage of the chaos and looted shops and offices in the Tamarindos mall. By then the normalistas had returned to Ayotzinapa.
Children look on as demonstrators march from Tixtla to Chilpancingo.
Governor Angel Aguirre resigns as social and political pressure increased over the disappearance of the 43 normal school students.
Normal school students and teachers union members take over the Palo Blanco toll booth in central Guerrero. This activity occurs several times a week.
A teacher from the Guerrero teachers union points a slingshot at police who have installed themselves at Casa Guerrero, the governor's residence, during a demonstration on October 4.
Teachers ram a vehicle into the gates of Casa Guerrero, then set it on fire. The graffiti reads "We don't accept [interim governor] Ortega," and, "Bring them back alive."
Two suspected government intelligence agents are detained by teachers and turned over to authorities in Chilpancingo.
A mural made by Ayotzinapa students since the Iguala attacks. This wall was painted for Day of the Dead in the nearby town of Tixtla.
Students from the Ayotzinapa school burn vehicles used to transport commercial goods in front of government offices in Chilpancingo.
Normal school students place a state patrol vehicle on the front steps of the Chilpancingo government palace. Minutes later, the demonstrators set fire to the building.
Cars burn in the parking lot of the government offices in Chilpancingo.
Students from the Ayotzinapa normal school carry the Mexican flag toward the Acapulco International Airport, where they shut down all outbound flight activity and seized the airport for several hours.
A peaceful protest is held in Tixtla, demanding the return of the 43 missing students.
A man in Chilpancingo reads new graffiti left by unionized teachers in the main square. Over the following days graffiti spreads across towns throughout the state, criticizing the governor and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and demanding the students are safely returned.
Students take a break during the roadblock along the Autopista Del Sol in Guerrero.
A protester strikes a police officer's shields with a stick, during an encounter with state police, shortly after demonstrators set fire to the offices of the country's ruling party in Chilpancingo.
Armed members of a community police force stand guard at the Ayotzinapa normal school gate. The citizen police have offered their protection since the September 26 attacks.
Community police in Guerrero march through the streets of Tixtla during a demonstration, demanding the liberation of one of their community leaders, Comandante Gonzalez, who was arrested a year ago. The Ayotzinapa normalistas marched alongside them in solidarity.
The Guerrero congressional chamber burns after it is attacked by teachers from the Guerrero teacher's union.
Family members of one of the missing normalistas, Cristian Alfonso Rodriguez, light candles at an altar they set for their son.