Dina Goldstein

With age, you realize that stories can also be unhappily ever after. Thanks to Walt Disney, when some of us were young, we always thought of being the princesses and having to play the role as damsels in distress, waiting for our princes to save us (and weather it was fighting a dragon, or having to save us from a wolf, he always did so). Although some fairy tales have got quite sad story lines, they always seem to end on a high… but what if this was not the case and we were just told to believe so? Of course, as a child, fairy tales were entertaining and motivating, but as you grow older, your mind is opened to reality and you understand that the world can have an evil side to it and not everything ends on a joyful note. Knowing this, it made me wonder what life would be like as those fairy tale characters, but this time, in the 21st century. 

My friend sent me a message of this article that caught my attention. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2385475/Dina-Goldsteins-Fallen-Princesses-shows-Disneys-Snow-White-Cinderella-unhappily-after.html I was not the only person who felt that the stereotypical view on the ‘happily ever after’ of fairy tales was shocking! Dina Goldstein expresses the same views through her photography. She says “My Fallen princesses’ series was born out of deep personal pain, when I raged against the ‘happily ever after’ motif we were spoon fed since childhood”. Goldstein placed well known fairy tale characters in modern day scenarios and broke the usual fairy tale imagery we are familiarized to. She achieved this by switching up the locations and situations they were all in. Instead of typing what she has accomplished… I’ll let her photographs speak for themselves…