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" We have all dreamed of being a superhero. Swinging from skyscrapers or flying high above the city we project as we make our way back to a secret lair. But at some point, most of us give up that idea.  &amp;quot;We stop believing that anything is possible because we&amp;#039;ve seen too much of what isn&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; says photographer Benjamin Von Wong. &amp;quot;And that is why I wanted to photograph ordinary people as superheroes \u2014 so that they could see themselves as they had once dreamed.&amp;quot;  So Wong assembled a group of mere mortals and brought them to the top of a skyscraper in San Francisco and turned them, with the help of makeup artists, into superheroes. He then had them pose (with a security harness) on the ledge of the building and shot them from above.  &amp;quot;I wanted to capture the fearlessness of superheroes\u2014without a green screen or cheap special effects,&amp;quot; Wong says. &amp;quot;The simplest way to make that happen was to place them on the edge of certain death.&amp;quot; The results are some seriously palm sweat-inducing images that indeed ignite the imagination all over again. Have a look at the shots and some of the behind-the-scenes footage.                "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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