Michael Muller photographs all sorts of Superheroes, and when it comes to special powers, he certainly has a gift behind the camera.

This wonderful feature story of Muller just came out on PopPhoto.com.

Muller has shot movie poster photos for movies such as  Spider-Man: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Iron Man, but he didn’t get his big break until he started doing a project called Superfamous. Here’s what PopPhoto.com had to say:

“Muller’s project, called Superfamous, was a series of portraits of the superhero-costumed souls who parade around Hollywood’s famous Chinese Theatre, where for five bucks they pose for tourists’ cameras. “Most of the money goes to feed a drug habit,” says Muller, “and one of the key pictures is of Batman smoking crack in the alley.” The marketing head of Fox Studios saw a 4×6-foot print of that image at the home of Joaquin Phoenix, who Muller befriended when he was doing publicity photography for Walk the Line, in which the actor played Johnny Cash.”

You can check out the Batman photo here.

The Fox exec invited Muller to shoot for the move X-Men: The Last Stand, and as most people would say, the rest is history.

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