A Contemporary Mythographer: Dina Goldstein

Dina Goldstein is a photographer and Pop Surrealist based in Vancouver; for Dina, photography is intended to evoke and wrest feelings of shame, anger, shock, and empathy in order to inspire insight into the human condition.  Her photographic productions are philosophical, satirical, technical, and visually stunning. 


Fallen Princesses takes the “happily ever after” motif and creates metaphor out of the myths of fairy tales, forcing the viewer to contemplate real life: failed dreams, addiction, obesity, cancer, cultural extinction, pollution, war, and the desire for eternal youth. This project exposes the consumerism that immortalizes these stories, and questions the notions of idealism within Pop Culture. Her second large scale project, In The Dollhouse, is a sequential narrative that takes on one of the most powerful symbols of Western culture: the beloved and idealized American couple, Barbie and Ken. Using satire, she subverts the myth of “perfection” by exploring this idealistic childhood construct.