Since we featured Matt Hoyle's Barnumville series of circus freak portraits in 2009, the photographer has been working on contextualising the characters in settings created using real composite shots, CG and, of course his original photography of each subject. The results are suitably unsettling...

See more of Hoyle's work at matthoyle.com

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