Cosplayers at home

We've all seen photos of people in costumes of their favorite characters from books, movies or video games. Usually, these pictures are taken at thematic conventions and exhibitions, and cosplayers stand next to other fellow interests in equally bright and interesting costumes. However, how often have you seen a cosplayer at a parade out of context? Say, at home? Well, photographer Klaus Pichler gives us this opportunity in his photo project "Just the Two of Us" (Just the Two of Us).

Klaus Pichler is an artist and photographer who lives and works in Vienna. After studying landscape architecture from 1996 to 2005 at the University of Natural Sciences in Vienna, Pichler has since become a freelance photographer, working for international clients and conducting personal projects.

In this series of photographs called "Only We are Widows", Pichler makes portraits of cosplayers dressed in costumes, but within their own homes.

Cosplay takes its name from the abbreviation costume play — "costume game" and is a performing skill and subculture in which participants wear costumes and accessories to depict a certain hero or idea.

In the accompanying word to the project , Pichler says: