WENDY HURST PORTRAIT

Salt Lake City, Utah |  FanX is a space of raw reality. Cosplayers emerge from their everyday self to an elevated version of self--or, someone/something else entirely. Artists become shapeshifters, inhabiting a character through what they're wearing, or what they hold, or what they say. Craftspeople from all walks of life swarm the halls with colorful excitement. It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from, or where you're going. FanX is for everyone, like a moving, shifting, swirling, ever-changing exhibit of living art. I just bring my camera. :)  All the portraits I captured during the event can be found at my website, wendyhurstportrait.com .

Salt Lake City, Utah | "We're not really 'together'," explains a Falcon cosplayer, motioning to the cosplayer-Ant-Man next to him. "We just met here 15 years ago and keep finding each other."  FanX is a crowd-shifting feast of colors and creative craftsmanship. Imagination comes to life as everyday cosplayers emerge from their creative spaces as pop culture characters and celebrities. Collectors collect. People-watchers watch. And photographers...photograph.  I'd be remiss not to celebrate with them.  More portraits are at my website, wendyhurstportrait.com

Stormtroopers at FanX SLC Comicon 2019 COVID-19 made me wonder something. If the Star Wars universe really did reach into galaxies and planets far, far away, and people/creatures/whatever traveled freely all over the place, did that mean microbes and sicknesses traveled too? And since the uniforms and armor the stormtroopers wore didn't protect against blasters--a primary weapon of their galaxy--could THAT have been the purpose for wearing facemasks at all?? #showerthoughts May the fourth be with you with these Star Wars character highlights I photographed at Comicon in 2019 before that lovely idea. ;) And if you're curious, ALL the portraits I captured in the convention hallway can still be found at my online gallery, here:  https://wendyhurstportrait.pixieset.com/fanxsaltlakecomicconvention2019/ Jedi Knight Lady at FanX SLC Comicon 2019 Mandolorianesque Warrior at FanX SLC Comicon 2019 Star Wars Stormtroopers at FanX SLC Comicon 2019. They spoke through a radio and everything...