"[7] Pinzón studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico, and Photography at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the United States .

[11][13][14][15][16][17][18] In 2006, Pinzón completed a project in which she photographed several immigrant workers in New York City dressed as superheroes[13][19] who, like her, mostly originally came from the state of Puebla in Mexico.

[26] The New Yorker magazine photography critic Maria Lokke wrote about these images:In Dulce Pinzon’s “Superheroes” series, costumes are superimposed on working-class Mexicans in New York: cooks, nannies, construction workers.

These satirical scenes question modern heroism and bring into focus the vital role these individuals play in the lives of their families and in the economy of the larger community, on both sides of the border.

She made these pictures, she writes, “to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.”[27]And in discussing Pinzon's photographs at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washingtonian magazine observed that :The iconic "Real Stories of Superheroes" series by Brooklyn-based Mexican photographer Dulce Pinzón depicts Mexican immigrants in the service sector performing their daily tasks while disguised as American superheroes.

[28] This project is easily Pinzon's best-known series and has been exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries and international art fairs.

[33] Inspired by these photographs, in 2015 the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a social media campaign under the tag #MigrantHeroes "to invite people around the world to identify and tell the stories of migrant heroes.

"[15] In 2012 the photographic series was published in English, Spanish, and French as a book titled Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes (Editorial RM, ISBN 978-8415118244).

[34][32] In 2020 the photographs were added to the permanent collection of the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City[35] and classified as part of the Mexican National Heritage.

[100][101] 2021 – The Real Super Heroes: Reimagining the Role of Latin American Immigrants through the Photography of Dulce Pinzón, Columbia University, New York, NY.