Yu Pang George Chan, Starring As Elvis (PEOPLE 2022)

Starring as Elvis is a photo story that focuses on Elvis Presley's fans community and Elvis impersonator in Australia. Being one of the most significant cultural figure of the 20th century, Elvis Presley still remains influential nowadays. In Sydney, fans meeting with Elvis impersonator performance are being held regularly, despite the fact that Elvis himself had never been toured internationally, not to say in the other side of the world, Australia. These kind of events are niche and popular at the same time, and somewhat like a cult when you see how the fans project their love of Elvis onto those impersonators. As someone who was born in the late 90s, Elvis Presley is strange yet familiar to me and I am surprised by the huge fanbase he has in Australia as well as the obsession of these fans. This photo story aims to discover the influence of American pop culture prior the Internet Era, to document the Elvis impersonator industry, and the fans' fascination with Elvis Presley and how they project their love onto the impersonators.

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