Texts by Eduardo López Moreno®
Superheroes are children of myths and legends, perhaps some of them demigods. They possess incredible strengths and powers. Sometimes innate qualities and attributes that make them different from human beings. Their mission is to protect, teach, entertain, and fight crime; but occasionally they are transgressors and villains. They are symbols of disorder and destruction and inheritors of evil and chaos. Others represent values of kindness, innocence, and optimism.
Some like to descend from Olympus where they live to the central areas of cities to be photographed, touched, and admired by the people who walk by. However, Heroes take breaks too. Tired of the efforts to make the world a better or worst place, they eat, sleep, rest and pray almost like everyone else.
I decided to follow and photograph them in those moments when they abandon themselves to their needs, appearing as simple human beings. Then I realized that they have feelings, insecurities, hopes and fears like you and me.
A poorly kept secret: Fiona and the Joker are dating. Protected by the anonymous atmosphere of a cantina, Shrek’s wife and Harley’s boyfriend share a tequila and exchange burning glances with their green and red clothes that contrast with the warm yellow of the place.
Fiery, human gazes. Urban landscapes frame a veiled romance over beer and tequila, and a family of lemons peacefully listens to a conversation that deviates from Disney’s moderate scripts.
Ladybug eats tacos on the street. After protecting the city from the evil that stalks it, the young superheroine treats herself by eating some taquitos of steamed carnitas far from her native Paris, this in the city of Guadalajara, Mexcio. In the bag she hides her magic jewelry and a bottle of chili.
A strangely reciprocated love. Unaware of her true identity and name, Marinette, who unwittingly transforms into Ladybug, loves Adrien, who in turn transforms into Black Cat, who is infatuated with the young ladybug. Perhaps both are unaware of their passion for Mexican food because of the magical stones that transform them.
With the gun and the bottle on the bar, a man awaits his food just like the men and women he fights for.
Modern ‘Adelitas’ eat tacos with a revolutionary hero. In the city’s central market, a peasant who joined the Mexican Revolution to fight inequality and for land redistribution shares a table and benches with other customers
Tequila and tacos. A peasant who joined the Mexican revolution to fight inequality and in favour of land distribution shares a table and benches with some customer at the city market.
The guardian of the wind – One of the oldest deities in the town, the guardian patiently waits for the subway in the City of Mexico to return home after a hard day’s work.
Micky Mouse rests by the sea. The most famous mouse in the world, who lives in the Disney universe, takes a nap on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk, where he occasionally goes to make children and adults happy for a little money, a break after several hours of exposing himself to the exhausting sun.
Mimi on the seafront. The mouse woman rests having a beer with casual friends in a sunset bathed in yellow.
With her pale skin and long dark tresses, accompanied by her trustful hand and 5 fingers. Wednesday Addams rarely shows emotion and is usually bitter.
With her black dress with a white collar, black tights, and black shoes, she dreams to get a pompous and elegant dress, where passers are reflected in the mannequin and the window of the shop.
In the Metropolitan Cathedral, Spider-Man walks to the front in the middle of the church towards the pulpit, where he will pray to be protected from a fall due to a failure in his spider net.
The captain jack sparrow savours a fruit ice cream in one of the central squares of Guadalajara, upon returning from his photo sessions with the public away from the Caribbean sea where he inhabits.
One of the oldest deities in the town, the guardian of the wind patiently waits for the subway in the City of Guadalajara, Mexico, to assist a meeting of pre-hispanic traditions, using a costume with recovered things like cans, which that very likely was never used by Mexican ancestors.
