Dina Goldstein

Dina Goldstein was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv

Dina Goldstein was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. In 1976 she emigrated to Canada.

She studied art history and photography at Langara College in Vancouver. She finished her studies in 1993.

She began as a photojournalist and documentary photographer from 1993 to 2000. From 2000 to 2009 she did editorial and commissioned work for magazines and advertising agencies. Her first public exhibition, Images of Gaza, opened in 2001 and showed black and white portraits of people in the West Bank and Gaza.

She later turned to large staged photo tableaux in a pop surrealist style that comment on society, religion and culture. Her series Fallen Princesses places Disney princesses in modern settings facing problems such as poverty, cancer and pollution. Later series include In the Dollhouse, about Barbie and Ken, and Gods of Suburbia, about religious faith in the modern world.