This has been a strange one to be talking about.
I think for most people in 2020, it’s been just not the year anyone expects and if you have global pandemic and everyone stuck indoors on your bingo card, well I suggest you go get yourself lottery ticket.
When what would have been MCM London on the weekend of 23rd October came around, it was only through friends and social media that I realised that MCM was meant to be happening.
I don’t quite know how this event went by me. Maybe because I didn’t get to release my shooting schedule one month before the event, I didn’t get to do my research of the cosplays I would be shooting over the weekend and also that excitement I would be having to seeing my friends, seeing all the cosplays, being creative with my photography.
I really do miss the atmosphere of the comic con environment, I miss seeing everyone in their cosplays and I even miss running around the event trying to either get to my next appointment, getting selfies or chasing (in the name of cosplay) a cosplayer to take a photo of their cosplay. The one thing which has been nice not to experience is the stress I experience trying to cram everyone I schedule with plus extra each day of the comic con, the exhaustion my body goes through and the aftermath trying to edit all the photos taken over the weekend.
It’s really interesting to see on social media how everyone reacted to not being at MCM London. For me, as I found things to do during this time such as creating podcast series, maintaining my website brands of this one and my alternative photography brand and edit location shoot, I can honestly say I didn’t miss MCM London, I always like keeping myself busy and doing something so my attention has just shifted from one area to area. But that’s not to say when it comes around in the future whenever that maybe, I’ll certainly want to be there with my camera taking photos of your cosplay.
Talking about the future of comic con, myself, Beth of Whatsers Cosplay and Thom of Gallagher Photography talk about this subject in length in our podcast series “Ed Talks about Comic-Con vs Covid-19 in 2021”, please give it a listen and see if you agree to things we talked about in the podcast.
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