Superheroes Show Their Vulnerable Side

Benoit Lapray takes superheroes from the loud and obnoxious environment of fighting bad guys and puts them in a place that could calm even those with nerves of steel. The French advertising photographer came up with the idea of placing our favorite good guys in nature while taking a walk in the mountains of the French Alps where he was living at the time. For some of the pictures in the series “The Quest for the Absolute”, he photographs models in a studio and superimposes them into a landscape photograph while some figures come directly from film stills. Lapray told The Huffington Post about his project, “I think it’s pretty easy to imagine [superheroes as lonely]. Because, they are different, and they have a big charge on their shoulders. So I guess they need to be alone sometime to recover a kind of serenity and to remember why they fight.”

To view a version of superheroes as rockstars, try Andres Moncayo’s SUPER ROCKERS.