Sumptuous Fire of the Stars Fairy Tales

Sam Samore is known not only for his photographs but also for his radical retelling of traditional stories, fairy tales, and great works of literature. As a storyteller, Samore changes characters' sexual identities, redirects their desire, and weaves wild incidents into the narrative -- disrupting the moral fixity of historical forms. As the author himself states, he "can take the stories and rewrite them over and over, using a multitude of possibilities".