Fallen Princesses

Life gets hectic and often everyone seems to be stressing and dealing with problems of modern society, like status, money and appearance, followed by burn-outs, nervous breakdowns and depression.
Sometimes it makes me wonder about how things used to be, not a few years ago, not even in this lifetime, but for example in the middle ages or 19th century.
I know the image I have in my head is probably blurred by my romantic ideas of a simple life, where people worked, had quality time with friends and family, danced ans sang all day (ok maybe I watched too many movies ;)) But I like the idea of a time where people still believed in love and fairytales.
And allthough the spirit of modern life has probably put most of our feet a little more on the ground, the succes of Disney proves how much people still want to believe in fairytales. Princesses who live in magical castles staying beautiful and pure, while evil is always out to get them and in the end find their princes and live happily ever after.

Recently I discovered a cool and inspiring photographer Dina Goldstein who put my thoughts above perfectly into a series of photographs, called Fallen Princesses. With her photographs she portraits the Disney princesses we all know and love in the way they might have ended up if they lived in a modern time. Some of the pictures are funny, some are a bit more confronting of tragic, but I like them, it makes you think..

 

Belle (beauty and the beast) is obessed with her beauty

      Red riding hood chose comfortfood to deal with her problems is now dealing with obesity

 Jasmine (Aladins girlfriend) lives in the Middle East and has to fight for her life

Little mermaid Ariël got fished up by a fisherman (probably with radar system) and now swims behind glass in the public Zoo.

And last but not least..Rapunzel got struck by cancer and lost her long blond hair. Let's pray she got better..

Check out the other fallen princesses Here.

And if you want to end reading this on a happier note, Or if you (like me) like a confrontation with reality every now and then but still prefer believing in fairytales, you should check out an other cool series of photographs by Dina Goldstein about the tragic make-believe life of Barbie & Ken (who is obviously Gay!) Poor barbie..