A growing subculture of cosplay has taken root on the outskirts of Gangnam, South Korea. Meeting usually one weekend every month, Korean youth have seemingly found a way to escape the pressures of societal perfection by transforming into fictional characters they admire. But can escape be fully realized in a society that places such a high value in personal appearance and consumerism? Onlookers still see them amidst a landscape saturated in all manner of advertisements. With so much product placement imposing itself upon the landscape, is their escape not a product itself? The aim of my work is to examine how these subjects wish to be perceived, while being in an environment that they cannot change or remove. I use multiple exposures as a technique to transpose subject and environment together. The resulting portraiture is one merged between fantasy and reality: A Cos’ality Of Play.