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I think people who take fairy tales at face value are deluded. I don't think there's anything wrong with them per se, because dreaming is also an important part of being who we are. Dreaming is good. Putting dreams into practice is a whole other skill set that should definitely be encouraged. As long as fairy tales is not all you have contact with then I think you can grow up normal and balanced.
This set of photos is interesting but I think there is a lot more the photographer could have done than what is presented. My favourite two photos are the ones you posted, and also Rapunzel and Cinderella.
I can interpret the images in a variety of ways. Are the characters happy, unhappy? Resigned? Tired, defeated? Resilient, defiant? I find the message slightly unclear. Maybe there is no message, it's just placing the princesses in more 'real' contexts. And then each person takes what they can from it. Interesting find, thanks Cinn.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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