What's a hero? That's the question a photographer tries to address in her work that offers a twist on some traditional superpower images. Brooklyn reporter Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report as NY1 salutes Hispanic Heritage month.

Faster than a speeding bullet, Superman is peddling his bike in Williamsburg delivering fast food.

At first it may look funny, but the superhero in the photo is actually Noe Reyes who works as a delivery boy in real life, sending $500 a week to his family back in Puebla, Mexico.

Maria Romero, dressed as Wonder Woman in a Brooklyn laundromat, sends $150 a week to relatives in Mexico while raising a family in New York City.

Photographer Dulce Pinzon has used her camera to capture the inner strength of dozens of working immigrants throughout the city.

"I became after 9/11, I saw that the mass media wasn't really covering or giving as much importance to the contribution of the Latinos in the society and I created a project for that — to pay a tribute to them," says photographer Dulce Pinzon.

Elastic Man is Sergio Garcia, a waiter who has the capacity to stretch his arms to serve and multi-task. The Human Torch is Oscar Gonzalez, who in real life works as a cook. Cat Woman is Minerva Valencia, a nanny.

"If you see we have one Latino working in every single kitchen, restaurant, garage in New York and they're very invisible," says Pinzon.

But in Pinzon's “Superheroes” series, their extraordinary efforts are showcased. The caption for each photo has the name of the immigrant, what they do for a living, where they're from and how much money they send home. A goal of her work is to show how important they are to the life and economy of the city.

Spiderman was photographed scaling a skyscraper. It's Bernabe Mendez, a professional window cleaner who displays bravery daily. Pinzon also needed to take the risk in order to take the shot.

"He everyday cleans windows, 30, 50, 60 floors up and he told me we just need a harness and we'll both be attached from a beam from the apartment,” says Pinzon. “And then if I just wanted to hang and be brave, then we'll do it."

So far Pinzon has 20 images and plans to finish her project by the end of the year. But the Mexican photographer has already had much of her work published in the national photographic journal “Nueva Luz,” which is distributed by the non-profit group En Foco.

"Sometimes a way to reach people through art is by breaking expectations and breaking the mold and she had just the right humor, but a very serious issue that she was addressing,” says En Foco executive director Miriam Romais.

The journal can be found on selected newsstands throughout the city.

— Jeanine Ramirez