Digital photographer Robbie Cooper explores the current convergence of private and social details inside a portrait series that pairs players using their virtual avatars.
Cooper traveled all over the world for 3 years, going to places like Korea, China, France, and Germany to capture the internet as well as in-person lives of MMO participants.
His photo project developed right into a photo book known as "Alter Ego" that further scrutinizes the role of absorbed fantasy within the gaming metaverse through interviews, biographies, and essays.
It also offers a variety of details behind the avatars. It's not only a lot of oily adolescents mashing keyboards inside a basement Cooper's subjects vary from a gold player in China, a paraplegic in Texas, as well as an octogenarian who all train an invaluable lesson never to judge a gamer by their avatar.
Plenty more pictures of players as well as their avatars following the page break.
(Via Design Taxi)
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