‘I’d never seen a woman riding a motorcycle in a dress’: Girma Berta’s best phone picture

The Ethiopian photographer on the thrill of taking to the streets

Serendipity plays a major role in street photography," Girma Berta says. He shot this in Mali, but lives in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and had never seen a woman in a dress driving a motorcycle. Not many women in Addis ride motorcycles, and those who do wouldn't ever do so while wearing a dress."

Berta had headed to Bamako's outdoor market that afternoon, drawn by its overwhelming energy". He was taking photos of vendors when the women passed. You never know what you might encounter, and it's this unpredictability that makes street photography so thrilling."