{"id":5799,"date":"2010-09-14T16:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T00:11:24","slug":"real-life-super-heroes-photographed-in-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/09\/14\/real-life-super-heroes-photographed-in-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Super Heroes photographed in costume"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted: http:\/\/newslite.tv\/2010\/09\/14\/real-life-super-heroes-photogr.html<\/a>
\nYou probably think costumed super heroes only exist on the pages of comic books and in Hollywood movies, don’t you? It’s an easy mistake to make.<\/strong>
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Photo by Peter Tangen<\/p><\/div>
\nBut there are actually hundreds of ordinary people (without super-powers) who get dressed up each day to go out and fight crime or campaign for what they think is right.
\nAnd now Hollywood photographer Peter Tangen – who has shot images for Spiderman, Batman and Hellboy movie posters – is setting out to document the lives of the these anonymous costumed activists.
\nAlong with a team of designers, he each week creates a Hollywood style movie poster for one of the real life superheroes\u2026 and to be honest most of them look more interesting than your average superhero film.
\nSpeaking to Newslite about the origins of the project, Tangen said: “I read about a real life superhero in a magazine and the idea that he existed immediately captured my imagination.
\n“When I learned that there were more then a hundred of these costumed activists I knew I had to meet and photograph them.
\n“The idea of the Real Life Super Hero Project is to illustrate the deeper story the media had mostly missed in their limited coverage of the subject.
\n“Knowing they were notoriously difficult to reach I appealed to their interest in the comic book genre of movies as well as offered the opportunity to participate in a positive story about their work
\n“I first approached Vancouver\u2019s Thanatos and asked him to participate in my project . Once I\u2019d photographed him his advocacy for the project created community wide support and four weeks later I found myself on set with twenty heroes for one big photo-shoot.”
\nNew hero profiles and other content will be added to the website every week through the end of the year and beyond, there are video interviews online so you can hear them talk about their missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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