Creating the Freak Show: The Rough and Ready Sideshow by Ransom & Mitchell

Duo Ransom & Mitchell brought their unique flavor of photography and digital art to the freak show with the Rough and Ready Sideshow series.

The Rough & Ready Sideshow series from photographer Jason Mitchell and digital artist Stacey Ransom reinvents the vintage cabinet cards of yore with a colorful whimsy that is both alluring and bizarre.

To create the intricate details of these circus portraits, Ransom & Mitchell sew costumes, build sets and fabricate props, then digitally paint the final touches that couldn’t be done in studio.

The Ransom & Mitchell retrospective exhibition at Vanilla Gallery in Ginza, Japan ends tomorrow.

Rough & Ready Sideshow by Ransom & Mitchell

A menagerie of timeless tales and rare specimens lovingly recreated in remembrance of the once-common traveling carnivale, thus saved from the obscurity of antiquity.

Miss Heady L’Amour

Maharishi Mistari

Fiji Mermaid

Jewels of the Nile

Miz Beardsley

Spidora

The Final Act

The Pharaoh’s Daughters

Two Halves & A Whole

Doctor Huckleberry Schuxley

Shkiper & the Maneken

Amazonia Strong

Bonkers Black

More work by Ransom & Mitchell here: www.ransommitchell.com