Taily Fares

Fairy Tales is a photographic project inspired by traditional fairy tales and the female archetypes embedded within them. The series explores how these timeless narratives continue to influence perceptions of femininity, identity, desire, vulnerability, and personal transformation. Rather than retelling familiar stories, the project uses the visual language of fairy tales as a metaphorical space where mythology meets contemporary female experience.

The first series within the project, Snow White, explores the psychological landscape between childhood mythology and adult awareness. Inspired by the symbolic imagery of the original tale, the photographs evoke the atmosphere of the forest, temptation, and transformation without directly illustrating the narrative. A young woman appears within natural landscapes surrounded by scattered apples, creating a visual dialogue between innocence and experience, fragility and autonomy.

Fairy tales often present female characters through ideas of beauty, obedience, patience, and waiting, yet they rarely reflect the emotional complexity of real life. In Snow White, the forest and the apples become symbols of curiosity, desire, danger, choice, and personal awakening. The protagonist exists in a moment of transition — between the expectations imposed by cultural myths and the discovery of her own inner voice.

Through this series, I examine how inherited stories shape ideas of femininity and how female identity is formed through the tension between external projections and internal experience. The images do not follow a traditional narrative structure; instead, they create an emotional space where psychological states, memories, and symbolic meanings become the central elements.

Snow White invites the viewer to reconsider the archetype beyond innocence and victimhood, exploring the complexity of a woman who encounters desire, uncertainty, and transformation while defining herself on her own terms.