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16 January 2020
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at taxi driver costumes, Life magazine,, the Female in Focus Award, Scott Kelby interviewed, Jim Kasson camera deals and Gary_Starkweather.
- In Nairobi's Motor Taxi Drivers Sport Extravagant Costumes in 'Boda Boda Madness', Grace Ebert presents an amusing collaboration between Dutch artist Jan Hoek and Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case.
- In Life and the Big Picture, Amanda Darrach explores how the magazine "invented a visual language and gave voice to people we'd otherwise never have heard from or seen" in a new series from the Columbia Journalism Review.
- The British Journal of Photography is accepting entries for the second edition of its Female in Focus Award. In Female in Focus: Championing a Gender-Equal Photography Industry, Flossie Skelton asks if any progress been made for gender equality in the photography industry.
- Roger Cicala interviews Scott Kelby in the latest LensRentals Podcast. "Scott said this was the best, most fun interview," the liner notes report.
- Jim Kasson reports his Monterey Museum of Art Show Is Up. He took a few photos of the installation.
- Lucas Coll lists The Best Camera Deals for January in several categories.
- We note the passing late last month of Gary_Starkweather, who invented the laser printer, at 81.
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