{"id":10189,"date":"2023-05-27T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T07:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/id-never-seen-a-woman-riding-a-motorcycle-in-a-dress-girma-bertas-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T07:38:52","slug":"id-never-seen-a-woman-riding-a-motorcycle-in-a-dress-girma-bertas-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/id-never-seen-a-woman-riding-a-motorcycle-in-a-dress-girma-bertas-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d never seen a woman riding a motorcycle in a dress\u2019: Girma Berta\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian photographer on the thrill of taking to the streets<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerendipity plays a major role in street photography,\u201d Girma Berta says. He shot this in Mali, but lives in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, and had never seen a woman in a dress driving a motorcycle. \u201cNot many women in Addis ride motorcycles, and those who do wouldn\u2019t ever do so while wearing a dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berta had headed to Bamako\u2019s outdoor market that afternoon, drawn by its \u201coverwhelming energy\u201d. He was taking photos of vendors when the women passed. \u201cYou never know what you might encounter, and it\u2019s this unpredictability that makes street photography so thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/may\/27\/id-never-seen-a-woman-riding-a-motorcycle-in-a-dress-girma-bertas-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/28b92ed14832df3381bbcff2c56d3038c58c6bfa\/277_3013_2977_1785\/master\/2977.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6ea3d2e9a09142f0c11748f505a15de\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019d never seen a woman riding a motorcycle in a dress\u2019: Girma Berta\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>The Ethiopian photographer on the thrill of taking to the streets<br \/>\n\u201cSerendipity plays a major role in street photography,\u201d Girma Berta says. He shot this in Mali, but lives in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, and had never seen a woman in a dress driving a motorcycle. \u201cNot many women in Addis ride motorcycles, and those who do wouldn\u2019t ever do so while wearing a dress.\u201d<br \/>\nBerta had headed to Bamako\u2019s outdoor market that afternoon, drawn by its \u201coverwhelming energy\u201d. He was taking photos of vendors when the women passed. \u201cYou never know what you might encounter, and it\u2019s this unpredictability that makes street photography so thrilling.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian photographer on the thrill of taking to the streets \u201cSerendipity plays a major role in street photography,\u201d Girma Berta says. He shot this in Mali, but lives in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, and had never seen a woman in a dress driving a motorcycle. \u201cNot many women in Addis ride motorcycles, and those &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/id-never-seen-a-woman-riding-a-motorcycle-in-a-dress-girma-bertas-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I\u2019d never seen a woman riding a motorcycle in a dress\u2019: Girma Berta\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}