How do you choose the “best” of the pho­tog­ra­phy from five days and dozens of pro­duc­tion? I don’t real­ly have a good answer. There are ways of rank­ing, and rerank­ing, and rererank­ing, work until the “top” bub­bles up. Anoth­er way is to try and include one work from each per­for­mance, but that’s not always pos­si­ble either. Maybe a quo­ta of the best from each day? Nah, that’s not real­ly fair either. And would any of them give a good sense of the whole experience?

What I have done, some­what for pos­ter­i­ty and some­what to try and just make one post (instead of the dozens I could make), is to go through my saved pho­tos from the entire expe­ri­ence and put togeth­er a set of all those that rep­re­sent the expe­ri­ence.. Then I culled and culled until I had the 32 images below that give the best view into what it was like to see the entire 2015 Sideshow Fringe Fes­ti­val. Or, at least, that’s my selec­tion for today!

Many kudos to Jes­si­ka Mal­one and Mitch Mas­saro for their incred­i­bly vivid direc­tion, and the same to all of the tech­ni­cal staff that ran a seam­less expe­ri­ence for every­one. And, of course, plau­dits and praise for all of the per­form­ers. An incred­i­ble expe­ri­ence for all!

Pho­tog­ra­phy from the Wham!Bam!Puppet Slam! at the Mag­net­ic Field The­ater in August 2011