The Real Story of the Superheroes

Dulce Pinzon has a website dedicated to to his photo series/exhibit The Real Story of the Superheroes, which focuses on the heroism of Mexican immigrants who work in NYC to send money home to their families. Pinzon dresses up Mexican workers as classic superheroes, and photographs them in their work environments, posting the workers name, occupation, and the dollar amount they send home to their families in Mexico once a week.

The Mexican immigrant worker in New York is a perfect example of the hero who has gone unnoticed. It is common for a Mexican worker in New York to work extraordinary hours in extreme conditions for very low wages which are saved at great cost and sacrifice and sent to families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive.

The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.


This project will consist of 12 color photographs of Mexican immigrants dressed in the costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes. Each photo will picture the worker/superhero in their work environment, and will be accompanied by a short text including the worker's name, their hometown in Mexico, the number of years they have been working in New York, and the amount of money they send to Mexico each week.

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