Eva Schimmer
Tel: +43 699 11 68 42 05 (24 Std.)

evatronica(at)evatronica(dot)com

Fotografie, Multimedia-Artist, VJ
Wien / Österreich

"Das Verkleidungsdings aus Fernost" Kosupure - Cosplay (2006 - 2009)   The term "cosplay" (kosupure) derives from "costume play" and denominates the dressing-up and posing, as well as the appearance as a fictitious figure. Appropriate costumes are mostly sewn by the Cosplayers themselves.. Hardcover, offset-printing, 164 pages, ISSN 2077-866X, approx. 12 x 8,5 inches, including over 120 color-images and 6 illustrations, weblinks, interviews and background-information to the following themes:
Cosplay, Animefandom in Austria, Germany, UK, Hungary, ... Interviews with the people involved in this project (age range between 11 to 55 years); also detail-shots from the making-of of the costumes. A humurous view behind the scenes of a worldwide youth-culture, which did also "infect" Austria – Europe – and has not stopped there. How did TV-series like Heidi, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Naruto, … inspire teens, twens and those young at heart, to create costumes with, for example, 3,5 metre wide wings. Ideal for everybody with a good sense of humour, sociologists or people who want to be bewitched by photography … Limited Edition SP: 29,80 Euro excl. shipping and handling   To be ordered directly via evatronica(at)evatronica(dot)com More informations about our distribution partners will follow soon.
"Many comics show a superhero, who is so 'Oberdrübermega' and who saves the world. Mangas show normal, everyday people and the story focuses on them and their daily-life problems." Cloud Dark on - Why are you reading Mangas and not Comics?
"When you do LARP (Live Action Role Play) you get hit by a weapon made of rubber, when doing a show-fight, you can only hope you don't get hit at all, because those weapons are made out of solid steel, …" Johann, talking about the differences between L.A.R.P. and show-fights,...

Since 2006 we are taking pictures of teens and adults,
interested in japanese youth-culture or also science-fiction and fantasy, LARP, comics, …

'Yume, Genjitsu' - dream and reality (2006 - .....)

is a project about cosplayers and their personal surroundings from all over Europe.
More than 300 people from Austria, Germany, UK, Hungary, … have participated so far, be it during a photo-shooting or an interview. I am no cosplayer myself. Yume, Genjitsu is a long-term project with video and audio material as supplement to the images just being prepared.

At the beginning of 2009, we have been asked at the „Next Comic“ Festival, where this >dress-up thing< (Verkleidungsdings) – the Cosplay-competition – takes place. That’s how we chose the book title. We simply wanted to show more than well made costumes. Our aim was – from the beginning – to show the motivation of the guys and girls involved, why they spend so much time, love and effort fort his hobby. They should get the chance to be heard, to answer questions, everyone of them has heard a million times since they started doing cosplay, … in their own words.
Eva Schimmer

Our main attention was always focused on the person wearing the costume, their personality, their essence, their manner.
The pictures show them during those very rare moments, when the real person and the cosplayed character begin to fuse.
Joy, soulfulness, creativity, social contacts, helping each other, … all this is cosplay as we were allowed to find out during numerous shootings.
Holger R. Weimann

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