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Project Description

Untitled Superhero Project (working title) is the first chapter of a portrait series dealing with the American Recession. Due to the current economic, social and cultural crisis in The United States of America today, I have decided to do a photographic project consisting of a series of studio portraits of superhero impersonators that live and work in the city of Los Angeles. Making them pose in their costumes against a colorful backdrop, I ask them to manifest feelings of genuine sadness – honest emotions that are a consequence of our current times.  The result is a somber, striking visual image that contradicts the iconic nature of strength and moral righteousness typical in American superhero imagery. Creating the illusion that Superman does exist – that he too was fallible and affected by America’s downturn.