Disney Princesses have become a popular subject for photographers who want to reveal the ugly horrors of our society, specifically consumer-driven, Disneyfied pop culture. Re-imagining the squeaky clean, inherently sexist Disney princesses and putting them in grotesque or morbid portraits seems to be a photography trend that isn’t losing steam anytime soon.
Parisian photographer Thomas Czarnecki released a series called “From Enchantment to Down”, depicting the princesses as captured, passed out or just down on their luck.
An artist in Belgium named Bruno Vilela has a similar series, Dead Princesses, that shows princesses after a homicidal demise.
Dina Goldstein’s “Fallen Princesses” series was a huge hit on the Internet by giving the princesses problems faced by the modern female (watching your weight, plastic surgery pressures, loneliness, etc).
The Literacy Foundation used photos of sickly, hospital-ridden fairytale heroes to promote reading.
Miwa Yanagi’s “Fairytales” are easily the creepiest. The ghoulish black and white photos are a macabre throwback to the original Grimm fairytales.
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