Clown Town #89

A note from photographer Slate Vernick about this image: "Scott Ringling is the mayor of Canaryville. He expressed some curiosity in my project after hearing about it through others in town. We didn't get to visit as long as I would have liked." ----- This portrait is an excerpt from the photographic archives of beloved photographer Slate Vernick. From 2082-2084, Slate photographed the residents of Canaryville, a coastal community known to outsiders as "Clown Town." For almost two decades, the citizens of Canaryville had widely embraced the practice of dressing up as clowns each day. What started as a unifying form of anti-war protest became a nearly religious cultural tradition and asp...View all