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Cosplay like you’ve never seen before
Penned by Oscar Holland, CNN In Thurstan Redding’s photography collection “Children of Cosplay,” the mundane and the fantastical collide in unanticipated ways. Spiderman stares pensively into the center distance as he grabs milk from a fridge. A group of Batmen cavort outside a smaller brick bungalow. X-men’s Mystique lays across the avenue beneath an orange sky, cigarette in hand. The trend photographer’s every day subjects — whom he only identifies by their occupations: A receptionist, a lecturer, retail staff — are element of the vast but elusive cosplay subculture that sees fans of Tv set, movie, anime, manga and movie games applying elaborate costumes and make-up to change them selves…