Photographer Ejen Chuang has been traveling the highways and byways, capturing remarkable images of people dressing up like their favorites from pop culture and fiction, and of course, we're represented there as well …
In 2010, Ejen Chuang self-published Cosplay in America, a photography book filled with images of cosplayers from six conventions across the United States. Almost immediately following the book release party at Royal/T last May, he headed up to San Jose's Memorial Day Weekend event Fanime, where he set up shop in the convention's artist alley. He sold out of copies of the book in one day.
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"Five people leave comments but, maybe a thousand could have seen the image, the video or the book or whatever," he continues. "I kind of was underprepared, but I had never done anything like this before so I was kind of learning through the same process how to navigate this."
[Source: LA Weekly article, image gallery]