'Kids of Cosplay' by fashion photographer Thurstan Redding celebrates the creativity that is cosplay.
, it turned out. “I was just so intrigued,” Redding remembers of this first introduction to the weird and wonderful world of cosplay that he’s now spent the past four years documenting. “I decided to go to Comic-Con, and I was just transfixed by the sheer scale of it, the number of people there, the level of craftsmanship that went into the costumes. Then and there, I knew this had to be my first book.
Indeed, one of the main challenges Redding faced when putting the book together was finding cosplayers who were willing to step in front of the lens. Redding was aided by casting director Finlay MacAulay, and the effort required a slow building of mutual trust. “We would have a lot of people interested initially, but who would then pull out,” Redding says.
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