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Happy Father's Day to all Superdads

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© Giulia Pex

Photographer Giulia Pex has come up with the coolest Father Day's present ever. Her series "Dad, you are my favourite superhero" mixes drawing, illustration and photography to showcase her dad's alter egos as the Man of Steel or the Dark Knight.

 


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© Giulia Pex

The surprisingly effective and deceptively simple comic-book style portraits convey both affection and spur-of-the-moment spontaneity. With the possible exception of dad's characterization as Spiderman's nemesis, supervillain Dr. Octopus, that is.

© Giulia Pex

 

© Giulia Pex

 

 

© Giulia Pex

 

Susana Martinez-Conde is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is author of the Prisma Prize–winning Sleights of Mind, along with Stephen Macknik and Sandra Blakeslee, and of Champions of Illusion, along with Stephen Macknik.

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