Everyone knows a few fairy tales.

Cinderella loses her glass slipper and Prince Charming uses it to find her. The queen dupes Snow White into eating a poisonous apple, but a handsome prince wakes her from eternal sleep. Poor Rapunzel lets down her hair and a kind prince climbs into her prison tower to set her free.

For a different spin on a story from the journals of Gia Marie Carangi about a girl with golden hair, Elena Boeth changed her subject's hair color and set her images on Earth instead of Mars, where the original tale took place.

For a recent assignment, Lawrence High School teacher Angelia Perkins challenged her advanced photography students to put a personal twist on a time-honored fairy tale and interpret it visually.

Austin Hall used his mother — instead of a young model — to portray Sleeping Beauty. He zeroed in on the part of the story where Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a spindle. “I wasn’t sure what a spindle was,” he says, “so I used a needle.”

Elena Boeth chose a more obscure story from the journals of Gia Marie Carangi about a girl with golden hair. For a twist, she changed the girl’s hair color and set her images on Earth instead of Mars, where the original tale took place.

To enhance the image quality and give them a soft, fairy tale quality, the black and white film was extremely overprocessed and bleached, Perkins explains.

This figure in a mysterious setting is meant to represent the central character in Golden

A peasant girl is overwhelmed, knowing she'll have to spin a room full of hay into gold in this interpretation of Rumpelstiltskin.

Austin Hall's mother is depicted as Sleeping Beauty in this photographic twist on the traditional fairy tale, which features a youthful princess.

A peasant girl is overwhelmed by the huge room full of hay that she will have to somehow spin into gold in this interpretation of Rumpelstiltskin.

Curled toes are meant to convey the struggle in Golden