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1 November 2025
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 Halloween, Melissa Ann Pinney, cheap film cameras and Kōyasan.
- The Associated Press captures Halloween as it was celebrated around the world. Reuters also caught Revelers Around the World Dress Up for Halloween.
- Melissa Ann Pinney photographed the everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools during a seven-year artist residency. Her series Becoming Themselves portrays students, especially the marginalized and underrepresented, as they navigate identity, community and the many transformations of growing up.
- Nilofer Khan suggests The Best Cheap Film Point-And-Shoot Cameras.
- Jason Kottle returned from Kōyasan with an Insta reel of photos he took there.
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