On the first weekend of March 2018, a determined group of cosplayers got together in NYC to get awesome pictures of their Game of Thrones costumes. The GOT Winter Photoshoot took place in Central Park on a brisk Saturday afternoon in the wake of a Nor’easter.
The high winds made for some welcome shots of capes and wigs blowing in the wind, though the storm didn’t provide the Northerners with the Wintery landscape they may have hoped it would produce.
Weather aside, spirits were high at the Belvedere Castle landing in the NYC park, where the 18 cosplayers joined to emulate favorite characters and join in their shared adoration for the HBO series.
Based on the A Song of Ice and Fire book series penned by George R. R. Martin, the costumes, hair and makeup in the HBO series are breathtaking and inspire cosplayers and fashionistas alike with every new ensemble they dazzle us with. Unsurprisingly, the show has been recognized for its achievement in these departments; Michele Clapton and her team has received no small amount of nominations and awards.
Anyone who has tried their hand at recreating a costume or the look of a character knows it’s all in the details and with the attire from the world of Westeros this is no easy task. You can find groups and meet-ups at cons all over the world getting together to pose in their fashion from the Seven Kingdoms, often with more than a few of the same character in the same costume.
There were mostly a lot of Jon Snows (we call a collective known of Jons a ‘bastard’), Khaleesi, and Melisandres (aka The Red Woman). The robes and elegant fabrics are somewhat out of place on the convention room floors, and the embroidery and beading detail of your epaulettes can get lost in a sea of season 7 Daenerys in Black.
Though the character that she cosplays as inspires animosity and discord, Casterly Fox’s Cersei is the photoshoot facilitator to whom we bend the knee in the NYC area. At NYCC photoshoot meet-ups, she’s reenacted the Lioness of Lannister’s greatest moments; from ruling as the dazzling Queen Regent to her breathtaking walk of shame and deliciously cruel kiss of death.
When Casterly Fox invited other GOT cosplayers near and far to gather, we did not refuse the call. Fox managed to secure an accomplished cosplay photographer Jason Laboy to capture our Westerosi looks and help us to reenact pivotal scenes from the series, of which he is also a fan.
Laboy, who is a staff photographer for Cosplay Culture Magazine, has been working with the new social networking app VERO to “make the platform a better place for cosplayers to share their content.” He even suggested users attended photoshoot in app.
The coordination of the shoot had been in the works since the 2017 NYCC in October and there was no shortage of re-casting due to conflicts and last min travel disruptions. We even decided late in the game to add a second day to the shoot, as Night’s Watch Jon Snow V.Soriano, one of the originators of the meet-up, learned he’d be travelling for work on the day. It’s no small feat to get a group coordinated to all convene in costume for a non-con related meet-up, and not everyone was local. Kira Kelly, who was cosplaying as Sansa, traveled from Atlanta just for the weekend to be part of the shoot.
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