CLICKER AMBUSH

There is a game franchise called The Last of Us which imagines a world infested by Zombies but not your regular lurching undead, these are living people corrupted by an insidious fungus – think the mind-altering Cordyceps fungal infection of the insect world having evolved to effect humans (something that is scarily possible in the future). This is a truly global pandemic – the infection first rose 20 years prior to the game’s start so nowhere is safe and survivors, where they have managed to stay alive, have banded together into ramshackle communities, lawless and ready to fall at any point. In fact, the world and narrative is so loved by fans, it has been adapted into a big-budget TV series by HBO with 2 seasons and counting.

As part of a themed photoshoot; me, Andrew Sheader and Alan Barlow had some fun with the concept. Alan played a Clicker – one of the games many Zombie-types that has been infected by the dreaded fungus, mutating horribly to such a level that they can no longer see, hunting only by sound and vibration. Me and Andrew played the role of survivors within this bleak world, having been ambushed by the devilish monstrosity.