Here's a photography project I greatly enjoy - Fallen Princesses. The photographer took classic fairytale characters and stories and put a modern, somewhat depressing twist on each one. The set includes the photo above with Cinderella, prince-less in a dive bar; Rapunzel sitting on a hospital bed, bald after going through what appears to be chemotherapy, with her beautiful golden locks at her feet on the hospital floor; and the Princess from The Princess and the Pea, sitting atop a pile of dirty old mattresses in the middle of a landfill.
I love seeing these stories that we all grew up with in a mature light and very current setting. I suppose it shows that there are even bumps in the road after Happily Ever After...
that girls gonna get four different kinds of ugly pretty quick.
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