Fave 2016 Genderbent and Crossplay Shots by FPS

I will always take a photo of a surprising genderbent or crossplay cosplay, and I had plenty of chances in this past year to shoot both. It was tough to pick my fave 2016 genderbent or crossplay images, and I apologize for any that didn’t make this list — that was a lot of pictures to go through.

First though, definitions for those who aren’t clear on which is which.

Genderbent cosplay is when you take a character of a different gender and make it a version that would be what it might look like as the opposite gender. In this gallery goods examples are Red Dahlia Cosplay‘s Kratos or the feature shot, Cassadilla Cosplay‘s Dum-Dum Dugan. Crossplay is when you are one gender but cosplay as accurately as possible someone of another gender. Both the Spikes in this gallery — Mysty Riddler’s Piratanical Cosplays and FergyK — are examples as is the wonderful bearded Eleven from Stranger Things.

Other cosplayers include Dollilicious, HarleyBean Cosplay and ConThem Cosplay, Riveth Cosplay and Photography, Panda of Wicked Geeky, Khepera Cosplay, Elegant Valkyrie, Mattsmash, Serenity Lockhart and Tito Midnight, and more.

High-res images for sale!
If you are pictured in any of our galleries and want the high resolution download for yourself, we can make it available via a private, password-protected link, for $8 per image. Just send an email to editor AT nerdcaliber.com.

We are also now selling high resolution images of some of the photos taken of cosplayers that have agreed to let us do so. To see the 50 or so images we have available to download for a mere $8 each, go to our Anime Boston 2016 sales gallery and our brand new Spring Super Megafest 2016 sales gallery.

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