Finally I am back home and I nearly feel like a human after two weeks of constant sleep deprivation and a steady diet of tacos and bbq. I have a TON of SXSW photos to get up into a quick seven updates. Let’s start off with an easy one that’s a bit different from my normal SXSW coverage… the SXSW Gaming Convention.

Did you even know that SXSW had a gaming convention? I didn’t until a couple years ago when my friend Seth Herzog hosted a cosplay competition there. The convention is pretty far away from the rest of SXSW but the shuttle bus stops there on the way to some of the theaters that were part of the film fest so I got off at the gaming convention when I had a few hours between movies.

I love shooting conventions because I love passionate fans of anything. Photographing fans and conventions is part of a larger project I am working on and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to shoot some gamers. In the two hours there I got a bunch of stuff that might end up in my final fan project and I got a decent gallery for the Village Voice as well. PLUS I got to see over 100 people watch kids play Street Fighter like they were watching an actual boxing match. Wild shit.

Click here to see all my shots from the 2015 SXSW Gaming Convention!

 

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