Project Detail: Cosplay

Contest:

LuganoPhotoDays 2018



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Filippo Trojano

 

Project Info

Cosplay

The Cosplay in Italy, linked to the two main comics fairs of Lucca and Rome, is now a phenomenon in continuous expansion with over two hundred thousand people every year and a giant organization that muves millions of euro. But who are these guys that to participate in a game are willing to pay even 5000 euros for a costume and that often relate to each other only through the characters they play? What is it that pushes them to do it and what lies behind all this? This is a great mirror to understand what is happening in a delicate and fondamental period of our life, when we are not able to leave the world of childhood to enter in the adulthood. Oscar Wild said: "give them a mask and thay'll tell you the truth".

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