Fallen Princesses

By Nichole Camarillo

What happens when the fairy tale characters we use as distractions from our lives are pulled down from their pedestals to walk beside us?

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What happens when happily ever after is exchanged for life-threatening disease, disorder, addiction, and other grim aspects of reality we've come to know?

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What happens when a princess falls?

Vancouver photographer, Dina Goldstein's fascination with those answers has led to her current project, 'Fallen Princesses'. A collection of photos that spin an all-too-real twist on the all-too-glamorous tales of the Disney Princess characters.

Cool art?
Or one more example of society's twisted fixation on watching good people go under?

Probably both. :)

Two more princesses will be shot for this series which will then go on exhibit this October. Just in time to make an impression on Disney's halloween costume revenues.

A good or bad impression, you wonder?
Hmm...