14 Cosplayers Who Have Decided To Permanently Remain In Their Costumes. #3 Is Creepy
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Klaus Pichler is an photographer from Vienna, Austria where he works as a freelance photographer for international clients, as well as pursues his own personal projects.
In his series entitled, Just The Two Of Us, he takes photographs of Cosplayers fully dressed up, but within their normal, home environment. The portraits are both bizarre, yet so engaging that you can’t look away.
In a statement about this project, Pichler stated, "Who hasn’t had the desire just to be someone else for a while? Dressing up is a way of creating an alter ego, a second skin which one’s behaviour can be adjusted to and causes a person to be perceived differently. ‘Just the two of us’ deals with both costumes and the people behind them."
"For the photo series I visited owners of elaborate costumes in their own homes. The choice of location is not a coincidence: Nowhere else is the (abstract) link between the person behind the mask and his or her alter ego as visible as in their own home. Nowhere else would it have been possible to portray the mask and, figuratively speaking, the person behind it on the same picture."
Pichler then concluded with: "The costume—usually full body costumes, which completely conceal the ‘private’ person—represents the alter ego whilst the surrounding living space, so to speak, the ‘backdrop’ or stage design cautiously impart information about the person behind the costume.â€
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