La Belle et La Bete

This was the final project for my digital photography class. We had to make our own world, and I chose to re-create the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

My dream for this photo would be to have random objects scattered all across the room, like an "I Spy" book. But I ran out of time. This is how it finalized.

The two main characters, Beauty and the Beast, are painted into the photograph in a desire to re-create a child-like feeling about fairy tales. When I was a child, I understoon in my mind that perfect beauty is unattainable, and a beast was more of a looming, dark figure.

The rose is the only color in the room, because it was the single, red rose that brought the two together(according to the original fairy tale). I wanted to highlight the rose above all else.

This was a really fun project!