Photo series

Desperate Squirrels

Biography

Never Talk with Strangers is the title of a so-called cosplay of the cosband Отчаянные суслики [Otchayannye susliki] or Desperate Squirrels.

Cosplay is short for Costume and Play. It refers to a costumed role play, mostly off-stage. A cosband is a group that performing such roleplay. Desperate Squirrels from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, already had depicted scenes from The Hobbits, before, in 2016, they focused on the first chapter of The Master and Margarita. The setting may surprise you, because the group is composed exclusively of women. But they say about it: «All participants to the events in Moscow have externally changed, but inwardly they remain the same».

This cosplay was captured for eternity by photographer Stana Krivokhizhina (°1984). She studied Computer security at the Technical State University of the Don, and she is not only a photographer, but also a talented writer.

Illustrations

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