Instant - Role Game Player Hannes

The work ›Instant‹ (›Spontanzauber‹) is a look at the fantastic and unique world of Role Game Players. Role Game Players refer to the changing of their behaviours to assume a role or consciously to act out an adopted role. Role Playing Games give the chance to leave and break out of the normal social structures. The Dutch historian, cultural theorist Johan Huizinga explains the play as following: »Summing up the formal characteristics of play we might call it a free activity standing quite consciousl outside ›ordinary‹ life as being ›not serious‹, but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly.«
All photos were taken using 6x6 cm and 6x7 cm, colour film and medium format camera.